Male Anorexia Diagnosis
When I was in high school a few years ago, I was on the Varsity Wrestling team and was exposed for the first time to weight and maintaining eating habits. I myself lost twenty pounds to make weight, but there is one individual, which stands out in my mind when it comes to the idea of having a eating disorder. This teammate of mine, would constantly be trying to lose to get down to the next lowest weight class. He was a senior at the time when I was on the team, me in my junior year. He started the season at 166 lbs and by a quarter of the way through the season he was down to 135lbs. This is without the approval of our coach who didn't want him to get down that low, but my teammate insisted that it wouldn't be a problem and he could do it. So, of course everyone just turned their head and let it slide. Him and I would run around the floors of the school, even after a very rigorous practice to keep the weight down even more sometimes. He ran everyday. He use to tell me when we ran together that he wasn't feeling well and that he felt like he was getting weaker during our practice matches at the end of practice. This is a symptom; something that he told me was affecting him, better
would occur during the wrestling season and therefore if he was diagnosed with anorexia for Anorexia. He obviously refused to maintain bodyweight and his loss lead to his anorexia is amenorrhea, or the absence of a period for at least 3 consecutive menstrual weight. In contrast, he did not meet the criterion of recurrent episodes of binge eating first place. He didn't feel that he was affecting his health or would be affecting his health individual with anorexia, although he does also possess some other symptoms for another he would wear a rubber suit under his cloths, because their use is prohibited in high was a disturbance in body perception, another symptom of anorexia. The 4th criterion for disorder. He also showed the symptom of recurrent, inappropriate compensatory considered under a non-purging type of bulimia, I would say that his obsession only drop down another class and that way he could be a contender at states. I would tell him cycles. Obviously, my teammate being a male did not experience this 4th and final
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