Both eating disorders are more common among young adults than at any other age. Our culture Long-standing psychological, interpersonal, and social conditions. Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by extreme restriction of food in pursuit of thinness. Anorexia Nervosa is a serious psychological and physiological disorder. Intense fear of weight gain and feeling fat.
Life is food centered.
Rituals about eating that appear strange to others. The anorexic restricts eating to the point of emaciation. The anorexic may exercise constantly and take laxatives or diuretics to lose weight. The most common ages of onset are 11 and 18, the beginning and ending of adolescence. The disorder is mostly diagnosed in the upper middle class.