Causes Of Anorexia Nervosa

In America, most anorexia patients starve themselves due to obsession of being skinny, fear of being fat, or because “everyone else does it.” Dr. Lee was highly focused on finding out why this was and was trying to figure out why it was unique to his area. On November 24, 1994 one of Dr. Lee’s patients, Charlene Hsu Chi-Yang, died in public due to complications from anorexia. This event sparked what would be a disaster to Dr. Lee’s progress in dealing with anorexia. Journalists and reporters paralleled this event to events that happened in America, which is exactly the opposite of what Dr. Lee needed to continue progress in his care and research.

"Now, I don 't like to compare. Facebook and Instagram are very image-driven, so I try to avoid that.” Rojas added, “Users support one another 's self-destructive behaviors through shared tips and tricks — and promote the notion that an eating disorder is a lifestyle choice, not a serious mental illness.” We need to realize how it can lead to damaged and unrealistic ideas of women 's ultimate body’s type. Rojas added, “An estimated 30 million Americans suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder (20 million women and 10 million men) at some time in their life, according to NEDA.”

All three of these articles share one common topic: body dissatisfaction leading to an eating disorder promoted by some type of media. Some degree of body dissatisfaction among women and young girls is consider a norm today. According to one girl asked to describe the “ideal girl” she described it as “5 ft. 7 in., 100 lb. , size 5, with long blond hair and blue eyes” ( Groesz, Levine, and Murnen 1). This ideal is not attainable for all young girls and women and I can only imagine how horrible this would make them feel, always seeing images of ideal beauty and not being able to meet it can cause them to go to extremes to get the body they want.

In her book, Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders, Emily Fox-Kales, a clinical psychologist with a strong background in the treatment of eating disorders, which includes bulimia, anorexia, binge eating, OSFED, EDNOS, and PICA, as well as body dysmorphia disorder describes the strong impact media has on women’s perceptions of themselves and displays the evolution of eating disorders through firsthand accounts. Fox-Kales describes society’s current culture as “the culture of eating disorders” (1). She points out that women no longer exchange recipes, but rather share a fear of food as well as diet tips and tricks to reduce weight. She continues to explain that “food has become more taboo than sex ever was and the bathroom scale more challenging a confrontation than the confessional booth” (1). Our culture has engorged the minds of women young and old with diets that are taken too far and become problematic.

Dissatisfaction amongst today’s youth regarding their personal body image is increasingly common, warranting a necessary change in the norms and behaviours that are portrayed to Canadian youth. The necessary change that must be implemented moving forward is the portrayal of healthy and attainable body images through media. A 2012 ABC News article stated the average model weighs 23% less than the average woman (Lovett, 2012). Such an appalling statistic is something that must be tackled as we progress toward the future seeing as it showcases to the youth of today that anorexia and unhealthy body weight is seen as desirable or attractive. The relation between such a statistic and anorexia is clear.

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche begins by discussing the westernization of illness in other countries. The book, which was written by Ethan Watters, gives four examples of the Americanization of illness, discussing anorexia in Hong Kong, PTSD in Sri Lanka, schizophrenia in Zanzibar, and depression in Japan. The first chapter, “The Rise of Anorexia in Hong Kong”, begins with Dr. Lee. Dr. Lee has spent years studying anorexia, and has found the course of the disease has changed throughout history, especially after the introduction of the DSM. In early research, Dr. Lee found that many clients who reported an anorexia- type disease showed physical symptoms, such as stomachaches and feelings of a blocked esophagus.

The DSM-5 and prior versions are strongly biased toward a Western view of what is acceptable behavior. Some criteria considered as mental illness could, in fact, be considered normal in another culture. (Varcarolis, 102016, p. 15) The Cultural Formulation Model is a very much perceived tool to use to give an inside and out investigation of the patient 's issues with regards to culture. The model has five classes: social personality of the individual, social clarification of the individual 's disease, social variables identified with psy­chosocial environment and levels of working, and social components of the relationship between the individual and the clinician.

Anorexia applied to every little aspect in her life, which is where it differs from anorexics who are only worried about food. She found herself counting every calorie that came near her body and digging through encyclopedias for every element in her food. Her new coming skinniness didn’t come from her sister’s nickname of “Sister Infinity Fats” that even her parents joined in on, it merely formed on something Jenny considered a hobby. But her “hobby” became more than that after a while, thinking she would be “condemned to hell” for taking up so much room and felt guilty for eating. As Jenny neared college she desperately filled her schedule with every activity she could fit into her schedule from French club to drama club.

In this essay I would define what Culture and cultural competence is and how it 's been implemented in mental health services in New York and how understanding cultural dimension in this area is crucial. When it to define a culture we have to look areas such as the behaviors, morals and beliefs shared by a group of people, as well as an ethnic, racial, geographical, religious, gender, class or age group. Every person belongs to many cultural groups, so that each individual is a mixture of many influences. When we talk about Culture also includes the way they dress, language, religion, customs, food, laws, behaviors, behavioral standards or patterns, and beliefs for example religious wise. It plays an important part in how people of diverse backgrounds

To the Bone is a fictional drama/comedy directed by Marti Noxon portraying life with an eating disorder. Prior to the film beginning, an announcement appears on the screen which reads, “The film was created by and with individuals who have struggled with eating disorders, and it includes realistic depictions (Curtis, Miller, Lynn, & Noxon, 2017).” The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the validity of the portrayal of eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa, in this film. The film commences with Ellen, the main character is a 20 year old female living and struggling with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, being kick out of an inpatient treatment program and returning her father and step mothers home for a brief period.

However I do think that its possible to target a culture with a psychosis, but a clinical profession should never say that a particular culture only faces certain principles. An example is in the textbook. “A common diagnoses for natives include mood, anxiety, substance-induced, and substance abuse disorder”(Duran &Yellow Horse-Davis, 1997). This sentence is correct but it used the word common, meaning that it may not always apply. If the sentence said Only Native Americans are diagnosed with mood, anxiety, substance-induced, and substance abuse disorder.

There are many different opinions regarding eating disorders whether they are genetic, ethnic, cultural problems, or a culturally reactive problem. Stereotypes from the past believe that white middle class adolescents have the most related problems to eating disorders because of their anglo-saxon cultural backgrounds. Research has shown that imagery of the ideal Western body has had a chain reaction of body shape and eating habit conflict between all ethnicities, cultures, and sexes. The issue between the two viewpoints is whether the problems associated with eating disorders is cultural or culturally reactive.

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They often have an intense fear of fat and gaining weight and often have distorted views of their own body image (Shapiro 2). Thus, they resort to severe food restriction, periods of fasting and even various purging methods for weight loss (Grilo 5). On the other hand, Bulimic patients often binge-eat and then looking for methods to get rid of the food due to guilt by various purging methods (i.e., self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives or diuretics and excessive exercise) (Grilo 5). Although many say that the media causes eating disorders, studies have shown that the media is not the main cause of eating disorders. The media does have a part to play in causing the rise in eating disorders in today’s society.

I think culture insensitivity is someone being physically and mentally abused and or teased and bullying someone, this is wrong no matter what the situation is , these people suffer inside and feel pain from the abuse and this can cause emotional problems, and can lead to depression for them if they have to put up with this on a daily basis, this happens a great deal in my line of work, we never can be sure what a person is actually dealing with in their own life, they may be getting abused at home, or have an unpleasant situation at home they have to deal with we don’t know, and when they have to get this kind of treatment away from there home this can be very hard for that person, I have experienced these situations many times