Childhood Revealed takes us into the hearts and minds of children who live with a specific challenge in their cognitive, psychological, or physical aspect of their life. For these children, drawing, and writing about their drawings, are ways of finding solutions or communicating with anyone that wi...

The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are complex psychosomatic illnesses. Underlying biological diatheses related to the regulation of mood, hunger, satiety, weight control, and metabolism, combined with psychological and sociocultural vulnerabilities, place an individual at r...

The aspect of psychology of interest is eating disorders, specifically bulimia nervosa. The reason for the curiosity and interest in this specific area is due to many experiences with friends that have been diagnosed with it as well as reading many articles on the issue. I find that many of my hig...

Bulimia Nervosa Definition "Bulimia was classified as a distinct disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980; the name was changed to bulimia nervosa in 1987." Bulimia nervosa is known as the "binge-purge syndrome", which in its extreme form, can also le...

Bulimia, also called Bulimia Nervosa, is a phychological eating disorder. Bulimia was classified as a distinct disorder by the American Psychiatric Association in 1980. The name was changed to Bulimia Nervosa in 1987. Bulimia is characterized by episodes of binge-eating followed by purgi...

The media today is one of the greatest influences on societies actions, personalities, and beliefs. Society conducts their lives to the point where they are just living a life that media has created for them. Sometimes this influence is taken into consideration to deeply and starts to harm society...

Over 30 years ago eating disorders were rare, and got very little publication, or advertisement. Today eating disorders can be seen in magazines, websites, even the daily news we hear about young girls who have died from these disorders. Why has the incidence of these increased so dramatically? Why ...

There was this girl at my high school last year that most guys, including myself, found to be very attractive. She was only a freshman, but that is beside the point. At the beginning of the year, and even before the year started when I saw her at an open house or something, I would think to myself...

In American society women are given the message starting from a very young age that in order to be successful and happy, they must be thin. Eating disorders are on the rise, it is not surprising given the value which society places on being thin. Television and magazine advertising that show the ima...

Bulimia and Anorexia, which are found almost solely in females, are rigorous and occasionally overbearing dilemmas to handle in any mental health treatment environment. "As many as five out of 100 females with Anorexia die from acute medical problems" (www.education-options.com). Both of...

In American society women are given the message starting from a very young age that in order to be successful and happy, they must be thin. Eating disorders are on the rise, it is not surprising given the value which society places on being thin. Television and magazine advertising that sh...