ABSTRACT
Based on many years of listening to people with anorexia and to those who have recovered the authors have drawn up a model of typical factors that maintain anorexia. The model suggests that once a pattern of coping using anorexia develops, a number of factors can help to keep it going, including: patients' beliefs about anorexia itself; the patients' general thinking style; patients' relationship with his/her emotions and with other people; and the response of close others to his/her anorexia. Most people struggle at some point in their lives with something really challenging. In fact most of us will suffer a mental health struggle at some stage during our lives. The key is to embrace this episode as part of his/her life journey, face it head on and get to know it. This chapter discusses case study of anorexia patients.
