Terms: anorexia
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1. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (FamilyDoctor.org)
   "Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but it can also occur in teenage boys, and adult women and men. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. They lose a lot of weight and are terrified of gaining weight. They believe they are fat even though they are very thin. Anorexia isn't just a problem with food or weight. It's an attempt to use food and weight to deal with emotional problems." Visitors sometimes misspell as bolemia, bulemia, or bulemia. 10-04

2. Anorexia Nervosa (Anorexia-Nervosa-Treatment.com)
   "Anorexia nervosa is an extremely dangerous eating disorder in which a person intentionally deprives herself or himself of food and can literally starve to death in an attempt to be what they consider "thin." The disorder involves extreme weight loss--at least 15% below the individual's "ideal" weight--and a refusal to maintain body weight that is even minimally normal for their age and height and body frame." 10-04

3. Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders (ANRED.com)
   Provides information on anorexia nervosa. 10-04

4. Anorexia Nervosa and Other Eating Disorders (ANAD)
   Provides information on anorexia nervosa. 10-04

5. Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders More Diverse (CBS News)
   "White women in their teens and 20s still account for most anorexia cases in the U.S. But experts say women in their 40s and 50s, men, black and Hispanic women, and even little girls as young as 8 or 9 years old are showing up in doctors' offices with anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders." 8-05

6. DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria (Morrison)
   Provides descriptions of personality disorders, including Anxiety (Panic Attacks, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, OCD, GAD, Phobias, Agoraphobia ... ), Adjustment, Dissociative, Eating ( Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa ... ), Factitious, Impulse-Control, Mood (Depression, Manic-Depression now called Bipolar I / II, Dysthymic, Cyclothymic ... ), Schizophrenia or Psychotic, Sleep, Sexual or Gender Identity, Somatoform, and Substance-Related. 10-04

7. Eating Disorders (Morrison)
   Provides DSM-IV diagnostic information on anorexia and bulimia. 10-04