Effects Of Anorexia
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In America today, thinness
is viewed as healthiness.
When you have an accurate glance, you realize the medias claims that to
make it in life, to become successful and famous, you have to be, you
have to look like the skinny stars posing for the tabloids.
Many young women fall into this illusion trap. In order to appear
beautiful, according to the actual medias’ norms, they do everything to
loose weight in a abusing ways.
Abusing ways that gradually make them fall into anorexia.
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There are many short-term
effects of anorexia that can be easily noticed. If you are not eating, you
do not give your body the energy to go about day-to-day activities.
The effects of anorexia can include lethargy, depression, inability to focus
and a lack of physical strength.
People who are anorexic may
look drawn and haggard all the time, even if they have had a full nights
sleep.
Another effect of anorexia is moodiness. Because their bodies are unable to
stabilize their blood sugar levels, anorexics are subject to frequent mood
swings.
The long-term effects of
anorexia, however, are much more dangerous. Eventually, after being in
starvation mode for long enough, the body starts to consume itself. Muscle
tissues will be broken down, organs will start to fail, and the digestive
track will start to atrophy.
These anorexia’s effects are not just uncomfortable, they can be fatal.
Sometimes, the girls who die from anorexia are the most glamorous and
popular girls. No one knows what is going on until it is too late.
Basically, a bad enough
anorexic will have the same appearance patterns as a junkie, being moody and
incredibly thin.
Many psychological effects
and prints always will be part of the life of women suffering of anorexia.
Even if they had the chance to get out of this hell.
Through their whole lives,
they will have a false image of themselves.
The main problem is the reality distortion.
The obsession of thinking
that they are too fat for so much time will always pursuit them. And no
matter how thin they get, it cannot be possibly be thin enough, because
their vision of themselves is altered by their fixation to "be
beautifully skinny".
They look in the mirror and
see a fat ugly blob staring back at them.
Anorexia can make it impossible for girls to develop a healthy body image.
Even if they are able to recover from the anorexia, a lack of
self-confidence often follows these girls to their graves.
So, all of us has to be vigilant.
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