Treatment
Treatment for anorexia nervosa tries to address three main areas. 1) Restoring the person to a healthy weight; 2) Treating the psychological disorders related to the illness; 3) Reducing or eliminating behaviours or thoughts that originally led to the disordered eating. Although restoring the person's weight is the primary task at hand, optimal treatment also includes and monitors behavioral change in the individual as well. As treatment can prove to be difficult, "as many as 6 percent of people with the disorder die from causes related to it." If anorexia nervosa is not treated, serious complications such as heart conditions and kidney failure can initiate and eventually lead to death.
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