Eating_Disorders

Eating Disorders This paper is about a serious topic to me, though some other people may disregard it as simply (and incorrectly) the curse of the upper-class suburban white girl. This paper is about EDs, or eating disorders, and they can’t distinguish between classes, nationalities, or sexes. I should know, I’ve had one since I can remember. I was only diagnosed a few years ago, but I never felt hunger, I was just born without that feeling I guess. And I’ve gone to clinics, hospitals, and therapies for it. And in all the groups I’ve been in, no single stereotype stood out. There were black girls from center city, along with men from middleclass suburbia, the upper-class whites, and well, a whole rainbow of colors and classes. My official diagnosis is “Anorexia, purging type”, sometimes called bulimirexia. The physiological cause for anorexia is serotonin levels in the brain being too high. This creates a continuous, perpetual sense of high anxiety. By restricting food intake, a sense of control and calming takes over, as (in starvation) the level of serotonin produced drops. Another way to “self-treat” eating, over, just, one, few, disorders, school, after, about, therapy, serotonin, next, know, i’ve, friends, food, feeling, eds, anorexia, years, since, purge, partial, out, myself, i’m, it’s, feel, fat, don’t, difficult, control, back, another, way, victims, very, true, time, think, thing, say, run, restriction, percentages, paper, much, lunch, long, life