Desperate for Control ♦ Counseling Services ♦ One Student’S at Notre Dame and Personal Struggle Saint Mary’S Offer Help with Anorexia
DMB blues Mir ready for 2000? Scene reviews Dave Matthews Band's third After 13 years in space, Russian officials claim Tuesday live album in two years. A second studio that the Mir Space Station is ready for album is due out in May. New Year’s. NOVEMBER 30, Scene ♦ page 10 World & Nation ♦ page 5 1999 O BSEEVER The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s VOL XXXIII NO. 59 HTTP://OBS ERVER.ND.EDU Desperate for control ♦ Counseling services ♦ One student’s at Notre Dame and personal struggle Saint Mary’s offer help with anorexia. for students with eating Editor's note: Kathleen McCann is a Notre disorders. Dame senior who has suffered from an eating disor der. This is her story. By LAURA ROMPF News Writer I'm an intensely private person, but I am sharing my experience — The stress on Notre Dame students is not to be understood as typical — overwhelming. Papers, tests and com to raise aw areness on campus. muter programs. Volunteering, sports and Eating disorders, I believe, are one of the most misunderstood, under relationships. I laving control over even one - - aspect of life is an accomplishment. diagnosed, and stigmatized dis Unfortunately, for approximately 10 per eases. cent of the student population, this “con Eating disorders, I would like to trol" is causing harm and even permanent define, are not just about ‘really damage to their bodies. skinny girls.’ Only those girls in On the national level more than 5 million advanced stages of anorexia ner Americans suffer from eating disorders — vosa, one type of eating disorder, .I percent of adolescent and adult women, appear Too thin.' Bulimia and com and I percent of men have anorexia ner pulsive overeating can also affect vosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating dis KEVIN DALUM/The Observer both men and women; eating disor order.
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