How Do You Help A Friend With Anorexia Athletica Eating Disorder?
Helping a friend, family member or loved one with an eating disorder is challenging. In every case, that person must be in treatment, and care of a physician and/or psychiatrist for recovery. Anorexia Athletica is a kind of eating disorder that female athletes are twice at risk for than their male counterparts. In a study of nearly 700 men and women athletes, 12 percent of women feared losing control when they ate. Almost one percent of females ages 10 to 20 have some kind of eating disorder in the US, according to the Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders, Inc. This group estimates eight million or three percent of Americans have some kind of eating disorder. Learn how you can support a friend or family member who is working to overcome a potentially fatal mental illness. Be a non-judgmental friend. Females with Anorexia Athletica have a condition known as dysmorphia, the distortion of how one sees her image. Rail-thin or very close to it, female athletes are coached and rew
