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and was exposed for the first time to weight and maintaining eating habits. I myself lost
twenty pounds to make weight, but there is one individual, which stands out in my mind
when it comes to the idea of having a eating disorder. This teammate of mine, would
constantly be trying to lose to get down to the next lowest weight class. He was a senior
at the time when I was on the team, me in my junior year. He started the season at 166
lbs and by a quarter of the way through the season he was down to 135lbs. This is
without the approval of our coach who didn’t want him to get down that low, but my
teammate insisted that it wouldn’t be a problem and he could do it. So, of course
everyone just turned their head and let it slide. Him and I would run around the floors of
the school, even after a very rigorous practice to keep the weight down even more
sometimes. He ran everyday. He use to tell me when we ran together that he wasn’t
feeling well and that he felt like he was getting weaker during our practice matches at the
end of practice. This is a symptom; something that he told me was affecting him, better
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and purging. He obviously refused to maintain bodyweight and his loss lead to his
weight being less than 85% of his expected or obtain expected weight gain during this
developmental period of his life. His beliefs that he was still a little overweight
was a disturbance in body perception, another symptom of anorexia. Finally, I personally would diagnose him with anorexia.
The intense fear of gaining weight is another symptom for the criterion for anorexia. When he ran after practice
he would wear a rubber suit under his cloths, because their use is prohibited in high
school wrestling, to help him lose more. He didn’t feel that he was affecting his health or would be affecting his health
if he lost more because he said he was still a little overweight.
He also fits the criterion of self-evaluation being unduly influenced by body shape and
weight. I would tell him
that he shouldn’t drop down anymore because he would get really sick and start to have
health repercussions, but he was unaware that he had dropped a significant amount in the
first place. I would conclude that although the individual could be
considered under a non-purging type of bulimia, I would say that his obsession only
would occur during the wrestling season and therefore if he was diagnosed with anorexia
he would only be meeting his symptoms exclusively during a anorexia episode. The
next criterion for anorexia is disturbance in body image and body perception, undue
influence of body weight and shape on self-evaluation or denial of the seriousness of the
current low body weight. He would complain about how his parents
were having pizza tonight for dinner and he didn’t know if he would go downstairs
tonight for fear that he would take a piece and start gaining weight back. First of all, he was
constantly talking about the possibility of him losing some more weight so that he could
drop down another class and that way he could be a contender at states. He also showed the symptom of recurrent, inappropriate compensatory
behavior in order to prevent weight gain. Although he
could also be classified under the label of bulimia (non-purging type), since he
extensively exercised and fasted.
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