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When a person is hit by Anorexia, the person sees himself/herself as overweight, living with a distorted body image. This video shows how dangerous it can be.
Anorexia Nervosa or commonly known as Anorexia is a psychological fear of gaining weight, restricting the affected person from eating normally. It is actually an eating disorder, if not treated can be life threatening. When a person is hit by Anorexia, the person sees himself/herself as overweight, living with a distorted body image.
But, it is so intense that, no matter how skinny the person becomes, the person still finds oneself fat. And life becomes a relentless pursuit of becoming thin, to an obsession that it leaves, little or no time for any other normal activity. The affected person lives in denial of suffering from any problem. But the person will make sure that he/she eats very less or throw up after eating anything, thus harming their body every day.
In this ten minutes video, Oprah follows a girl Rudine over many years who suffers from an extreme form of Anorexia. This video will show you, how dangerous this disease can be. Though Rudine loses her life in this battle, it is curable, which can take months or some years. It can also relapse.
If you know, someone who just refuses to eat, or is obsessed with body weight, may be its time, you have a conversation with the person and may be call for medical help.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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