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Symptoms of Anorexia (Physical Signs (Constipation and slow emptying of…
Symptoms of Anorexia
Physical Signs
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Thinning hair, dry skin, and brittle nails.
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Feeling cold, with a lower-than-normal body temperature.
Weighing much less than is normal or expected for your age, gender, stage of development, or physical health.
Personal Signs
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Restricting food or types of food, such as food that contains any kind of fat or sugar.
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Seeing your body as overweight, in spite of being underweight. This is called having a distorted body image.
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Being secretive around food and not recognising or wanting to talk about having a problem with eating or weight loss.
Binge eating and forcing to vomit or use laxatives or diuretics to lose weight. Breakdown of the enamel on the teeth is a common symptom of long-term vomiting.
Forming rituals
Having special ways of eating food, hoarding food, collecting recipes, and preparing elaborate meals for other people but not eating the meals themselves.
Spending a lot of time cutting and rearranging food on their plates to make it look as though they have eaten. They may also hide food or secretly get rid of it during meals.