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What happens to anorexic teenagers when they become anorexic young women?

         In their twenties many fall in love, get married and try to build a life with their husbands just like other young women. The difference is that the anorexic young woman has anorexic thinking and feeling influencing every decision and action in her life. She is often very afraid.

         Most people in their mid-twenties go through a kind of developmental shock as they are confronted by new and different kinds of personal challenges in their lives. The woman is only recently no longer a young girl. She has new responsibilities to understand and shoulder. She discovers that people are placing new and often reasonable expectations on her.

         Whether she accepts those expectations or not, she still has to deal with them. This is a stressful time for any young woman, but particularly so for an anorexic young woman. She can feel angry, frightened and overwhelmed.