HLTHAGE 1CC3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 90 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Anorexia nervosa: extreme emaciate (the state of being abnormally thin) (refusal to maintain 85% of. Normal" weight): disturbed perception of body, undue in uence of body weight and shape in self- evaluation, hungry, but starve oneself. Pride in success: there is a physical risk that is involved. It is often fatal: food (its avoidance) central to everyday life, amenorrhea (stoppage of menstruation) -> removed from dsm - 5. There may be another ways of amenorrhea, not necessarily from anorexia. Anorexia is common among younger women, who have yet to have experience menstruation. People are being denied treatment, because they did not satisfy this criteria. Problems that accompany a. n: sexual dif culties and disinterest, lack of impulse control. I. e. - severely starved one"s self, later became animalistic" gained no self-control and started eating from a garbage can: health problems related to weight loss (abdominal pain, intolerance to cold, lethargy), other dif culties include:
