Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa is an illness that mainly affects adolescent girls, but it can also occur in boys. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. The most common features are loss of weight and change in their behaviour. The weight loss may become severe and life threatening. There personality changes will be those of increasing seriousness and introversion and an increasing tendency to become obsessional. Victims of anorexia will usually begin to lose …showed first 75 words of 618 total…

…showed last 75 words of 618 total…more than changes in a person’s eating habits. Anorexic patients often need counseling for a year or more so they can work on changing the feeling that are causing their eating problems. These feelings may be about their weight, their family problems or their problems with their self-esteem. Some anorexic patients are helped by taking medicine that make them less depressed. These medications are prescribed by a doctor and are used along with counseling