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Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a disorder in which preoccupation with dieting and thinness leads to excessive weight loss. The individual has an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image and weighs less than the 85% of expected normal weight.

Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height
Restrictive Eating
Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
Disturbance in way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
Loss of period in women who have reached puberty

Signs & Symptoms

Exhibits much concern about weight

Complaints of "feeling" fat

Suffers from depression (including shame, anger and guilt)

Perfectionist personality

Attributes social and professional successes/ failures to weight gain/loss

Denial of hunger

Loathing of body, hiding shape and weight

etc.