What are all the symptoms of an anorexic person?

Question

I have this friend who is, well i think, anorexic. What are all the symptoms of anorexia.

Answer 1

This probably isn't the best choice because being anorexic can have long term health risks. You should pick a healthy diet of less calories and more exercise

Anorexia nervosa is a complex psychological illness that can have devastating physical consequences. Twenty percent of anorexics die of their illness, many from heart attacks and starvation. The self-starvation that occurs in anorexia nervosa can lead to:

Dehydration
Malnutrition
Heart damage
Liver damage
Infertility
Personality changes
Kidney damage
Osteoporosis
Damage to the immune system
Starvation
Permanent health damage
Death

There are many signs that someone may have anorexia nervosa. The most frequently noticed is the extreme thinness that characterizes someone with this eating disorder. There are other physical, emotional, and behavioral signs that signal anorexia.

Extreme weight loss
Refusal to eat enough to maintain a healthy body weight
Persistent negative comments about body shape and size
Distorted body image and self-perception
Inability to recognize true body size/thinness
Excessive exercise
Continuing to diet although thin
Obsessive calorie and fat gram counting
Constant weighing
Refusing to eat in public/avoidance of eating situations
Denial of the problem
Claiming lack of hunger
Attributing life successes or failures to weight
Dressing in layers to hide weight loss
Thinning hair
Dry, yellow skin
Dry, brittle hair and nails
Complaints of being cold all the time
Refusal to eat solid food
Disguising lack of eating or reduced food intake by playing with food, picking at food, rearranging food on the plate, hiding food
Fine, downy hair that develops on face or body
Lack of menstrual period; loss of menses
Personality changes
Inability to accept compliments; frequent self-belittling comments
High expectations of perfection

Diagnostic Criteria
Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances
a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating)
Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or other medications; fasting; or excessive exercise.
The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week for 3 months.
Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.
The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of Anorexia Nervosa.
Specify type:
Purging Type: during the current episode of Bulimia Nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas
Nonpurging Type: during the current episode of Bulimia Nervosa, the person has used other inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.

Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but it can also occur in teenage boys, and adult women and men. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. They lose a lot of weight and are terrified of gaining weight. They believe they are fat even though they are very thin. Anorexia isn't just a problem with food or weight. It's an attempt to use food and weight to deal with emotional problems.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

They are skinny and they rarely wnat to eat.