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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows about it. And you still think there's nothing wrong with...
...textbook definition of anorexia nervosa is "a chronic illness principally affecting young girls after puberty. It is characterized by severe weight loss which is self-induced, amennorhea [loss of period], and a specific psychopathology." However, after a century of research on anorexia nervosa, this definition does not hold up well. The psychopathological basis for the disease is still not defined specifically enough to bring doctors who treat anorexia to a consenus on its cause. Furthermore, one in ten diagnosed anorexics is male...
...soon. Anorexic patients are perhaps too rare and too scattered to support large conclusive research studies; large hospitals admit only ten to twelve anorexic patients a year, people whose self-starvation has put their lives in danger, who have lost more than 20 per cent of their normal body weight...
...dieting gets out of control, Bruch believes, because the anorexic expects it to bring about effectiveness and respect. Since no amount of weight loss can achieve these goals, the anorexic becomes frantic and pursues the diet with renewed fervor. The desire for control of one's life is replaced by the desire to control the body...
...Peter Sifneos, a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Hospital, describes a German treatment for anorexics as "most upsetting to many people, but it has the best results in pounds per weight. The Germans force the patient to stay in bed twenty-four hours a day and don't allow parents or any others to visit. During rounds the whole team--professors, residents, interns and nurses--all give the patient a Germanic lecture on wasting time, being undeserving and taking another person's bedspace, and they tube-feed the patient, through the nose and down to the stomach. As soon...