What do you know about eating disorders?

By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
By now, everyone is well aware of the serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders that seem to plague young women. Anorexia and bulimia are household words and progress has been made in recognizing and treating their underlying psychological causes. But suddenly there is a whole slew of new eating disorders making the news. Take this quiz and find out what's going wrong with the way we approach food.

Eating Disorders, what really happens

Shocking anorexia pictures

Aimee Moore's mother has watched her child battle eating disorders for 15 years, a pattern of behaviour that had her daughter purge as often as 150 times a day and become a skeleton with skin...


Resource - http://www.2medusa.com/2008/09/anorexia-bulimia-tragic-life-of-aimee.html

Fighting with Anorexia Nervosa

(Author unknown)
Get up! Fight!
I should. I was running.
I thought I was free.
But the fiery wind caught me,
stopped me, burns me now,
howling from Hell.
I scream, rage back
at the chaos run through me.
I hate it out here,
unprotected and glaring.
Let me crawl back
to my clammy cool tomb
where the howling just hummed
me to purgatory sleep.
But I hear you...and you...
and you...somewhere beyond this.
I scream and I beg.
Can you hear me? Help me?

Girl anorexic, home picture

Anorexic girl picture...

Delightful.