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Eating Disorder: Anorexia Nervosa It is not easy to understand a person suffering from Anorexia. “People suffering from anorexia take dieting to extremes” (kubersky 37). Every second and/or minute, they spend figuring out how to avoid eating. They make up reasons to explain to their loved ones why they barely touched their food at the dinner table. Usually they exercise a lot to lose more weight. Even when they are really thin, they see themselves as fat. It is as if the mirror plays tricks on them and lies to them about how they look, but it is their mind that is playing tricks on them. I had a very close friend who was anorexic. Her name was “Cindy” and she was a beautiful 16-year-old girl. At that age everyone adored her: her friends, her teachers, her parents, etc. She lived with her parents in a beautiful house. She was on the honor roll in school. She was very athletic, being on the track team, field-hockey team, soccer team, and the girls’ basketball team. She was also musically talented; she was on the choir and played the piano. She was also the editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook. She was popular and was the president of her class. To other kids it seemed as if Cindy at it all. However, no one really knew what she was up to. Towards the middle of our sophomore year in high school, my friends and I began to notice that she was losing a lot of weight. Thinking that she was on a diet, we complimented her on her weight loss. Then we noticed that she was not only getting thin, but acting differently too. She stopped hanging out with us, because she wanted to be more by herself now. She always managed to have an excuse for not hanging out with us anymore, and she avoided most of the social activities. At home, her parents noticed the changes too. They were worried by how thin she had gotten. They never saw her eat because Cindy had so many different excuses to explain why she was never hungry. She would say that she had just had a snack; or she would say that she had stopped off for a pizza with us before coming home from school.
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