1. In Hunger I am King: A study of anorixia nervosa
The symptoms of anorexia nervosa, also known as "the starving disease" , are dramatic loss of weight (up to twenty to twenty-five percent of normal body weight), an intense fear of becoming obese, a disturbance of body image, a refusal to maintain body weight over a minimal normal weight for age and height and no known physical illness accounting for weight loss (DSM - III - R, American Psychiatric Association, 1987). ... Anorexia is seen most in female patients; only five to ten percent of cases are males. ... The children felt like they had no worth away from their parents so they did not ...
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