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anorexia nervosa

noun as in eating disorder

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During my early and mid-thirties, however, I was also in the throes of a twenty-year battle with anorexia nervosa, tiptoeing toward recovery but still very much in denial.

In that moment, I realized that after more than a decade, I had made a full recovery from anorexia nervosa, which had once caused me an unthinkable amount of suffering.

Marie took her own life on January 19, just two months after her daughter Isabelle succumbed to the effects of anorexia nervosa.

Thus, for example, there exists in adult life a disturbance of the nervous system which is called "anorexia nervosa."

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