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A Case Study of Anorexia Nervosa

✍ Scribed by Lucy Howarth

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
501 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1072-4133

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✦ Synopsis

is a 15-year-old girl who was admitted to a General Teaching Hospital because of prolonged weight loss and refusal to eat. On admission she weighed 35 kg (5.5 st), which at a height of 1.55 m meant that she was well below the third centile on Height and Weight standard charts. When I asked Anne-Marie whether she had noticed any symptoms in association with her weight loss she said that her skin had become dry and flaky, her hair was falling out in clumps, she felt that her stomach was swollen and bloated, and she felt very depressed.

Anne-Marie began dieting 8 months previously because she felt 'fat

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