Anorexia: It is a disease

Imagine never eating and pretending like you are not hungry. First it may seem awesome and you might want to do it all the time. But then hair starts growing in places it shouldn't, your skin becomes dry, scaly, and yellowish and you become so depressed that you don't even have a "social" life anymore. Anorexia will do all of this and more to whomever it takes over. Anorexia is a major disease.
Everyone knows that anorexia is an eating disorder, but what they do not know is that it is really a major disease that can kill you. According to Jacqueline Longe anorexia was classified as a psychiatric disorder in 1980 in the 3rd edition of DSM. Characteristics of anorexia are unrealistic fear of gaining weight, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of their body image. Anorexia comes from two Latin words that mean "nervous inability to eat" (Longe). There are also two subtypes of anorexia. The first subtype is called the restricting type.......

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