anorexia nervosa

Examines the dangers associated with eating disorders, discussing the most common causes of anorexia and bulimia, why some people are more prone to them, the physical and mental damage they can cause, and the most effective treatment options.

This film takes us inside the walls of Renfrew Center, a residential facility for the treatment of women with eating disorders, closely following four young women who have spent their lives starving themselves-- often to the verge of death.

What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard is about Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth who has honed a dangerous skill: starving herself. Even when her parents send her to a treatment center for her eating disorder, she can't stop. Then she begins receiving packages from someone she doesn't know. Is it a secret admirer, or someone playing a cruel trick? In the end, Elizabeth determines the identity of the gift-giver it's someone totally unexpected, whose intentions are good. And, even more important, she finds a way to play an active role in her recovery.

In the hospital where she is receiving treatment for anorexia, twelve-year-old Riley records her days in her journal--going to therapy, rediscovering her love of art, dealing with her rule-breaking roommate, and worrying about relapse once she returns home.

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Fourteen-year-old Max doesn't like to eat, and he confesses his feelings about Ana---also known as his eating disorder, anorexia--in a journal that his therapist makes him keep. When he hides his journal in a geocache box, someone finds it and starts writing to him, signing it with "E." Although Max is unsure of the secret writer's identity,he takes comfort in the words that appear in his journal as they continually confide in one another about their problems. And when his parents begin having trouble and the family is on verge of splitting up, Max's eating disorder intensifies and he feels himself losing control.

Raine has good grades, great friends, and an adoring boyfriend, but she really wants to be pretty and thin.

While individual women can focus on cultivating a healthy body image, it is important for young women to analyze how the media and others encourage unhealthy perceptions of what women's bodies are supposed to look like.

"Misfit Tally is forced to room with queen bee Ava on the seventh grade's extended field trip to Washington, D.C., and discovers several surprising things about her roommate, including the possibility of an eating disorder"--.