Personality

90% of eating disorder victims are females, and 86% of the time people become anorexic before they turn 20. People with specific character traits more often and easily suffer with anorexic, and many times all they want is to be more perfect.

Common Personality Traits:

• obsessive compulsive
• perfectionistic
• wanting to please everyone all the time
• never satisfied with themselves, what they do, and others
• wanting to help others with their problems
• very intelligent
• good student
• denial
• wanting to be special and stand out
• resistant towards change
• stressed and anxious with new situations
• views everything as good or bad- no in-betweens, only extremes
• athletic

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