Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by distorted body image and excessive weight loss. It stems from psychological factors rather than food and is an unhealthy way to cope with emotional problems. People with anorexia often equate thinness with self-worth. The disorder can have serious physical effects and is considered a mental illness influenced by biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors. Treatment involves restoring healthy eating habits, weight gain, therapy, and sometimes medication.

1. By: Isabella Lennon
“Anorexia nervosa isn't really about food. It's an unhealthy way
to try to cope with emotional problems. When you have
anorexia nervosa, you often equate thinness with self-worth.”
(Mayo Clinic, 2010)

2. What’s Anorexia really about?
• An Eating disorder that means loss of appetite due to
psychological illness
• A distorted view of a body image
• “A person with A3norexia often initially begins dieting to lose
weight. Over time, the weight loss becomes a sign of mastery
and control.” Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, MD

3. Anorexia is very harmful for your body
• Stomach rupture
• Bone density loss
• Anemia
• Absence of menstrual cycle
• Brittle nails
• Thin hair
• Dry skin
• Shrinking brain tissue
• Yellow skin

4. Anorexics all act the same
• Distorted body image
• No emotion
• Depression
• Disrupted sleep
• Bad attention span
• Obsessed with food
• High achievers
• No interest in previous activities

5. Anyone can be Anorexic
• 95% of anorexics are female and 1 in 100 adolescents
experience anorexia (Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, MD)
• Children as young as five
• 3.7% of women have experienced it once in there life
(Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, MD)
• 0.3% of men have experienced it once in there life
(Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, MD)

7. Anorexia can be biological
• Genetically venerable
• Dysfunction in part of a brain
• History of Under eating

8. Anorexia is a mental disease too
• Low self-worth
• Never think your thin enough
• High demands from parents

9. Society encourages Anorexia
• Magazines
• Models
• Peer pressure
• Divorce

10. You can stop Anorexia
• Change people’s eating habits
• Restore to appropriate weight
• Force feed
• Therapy
– Group
– Individual
– Family
• Medication

11. Biofeedback Therapy
• Form of Physical therapy
• Use Biofeedback Treatments
• Help patients gain control of involuntary
things

12. Education
• High School Diploma
• Bachelors Degree in Psychology
• License
• Supervised training
• Certification

13. Salary
• Between $40,000 and $80,000 per year
• Average of $57,000

14. Future demand for position
• Average growth of 12% per year

15. High School
• Atholton High School, 2012-2016
• Allied Health Academy
– Maintain “C” Average
– Completion of Biology 1
– Classes held at Application & Research Laboratory

16. College
• Indiana University Southeast
• $530.50 per credit hour
• Mascot is Grenadier
• Degree in Psychology
– Psychology 1 and 2
– 33 credit hours

17. Community Service and past employment
• Ran a successful Pet Sitting Business from 5th-
7th grade
• Volunteered for two years serving lunches to
the homeless
• Worked with Biofeedback Therapists for two
years at John Hopkins Hospital
• Three years of babysitting