Anorexia Nervosa At some point in time, every person on earth suffers from anorexia. By definition anorexia is merely a loss of appetite. Anorexia nervosa on the other hand is quite serious. According to the fourth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, anorexia nervosa is characterized as a disorder in which people refuse to maintain a minimally normal weight, intensely fear gaining weight, and significantly misinterpret their body and its shape. It …showed first 75 words of 1286 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1286 total…name, a structure of some kind, explainable, Understandable, simple, English, scientific- Close enough to God in this century. After that came more: Depression, addiction, compulsion, obsession All concrete, medical terms in a chart I could read There it was-me Me. Textbook-smart,textbook-hard, with no need to feel a thing My emotions were as dry As my vitamin-B deficient lips by then I was everything I ate and nothing I wasted to be Except almost dead.