Anorexia

Tumanskaya Olga

Before starting the introduction of my topic I would like to show you the video and thus make you guess the topic of my today’s morning discussion.

Watching the video

Question to the audience: Who has guessed what I’m going to speak about?

I think that this problem is really urgent, because nowadays girls think too much about their appearance, especially about their body. Scientists affirm that more than half of the women are dissatisfied with their body. Anorexia is a psychological disease first of all, but it causes many problems not only with small weight, but also with malfunction of menstrual period, hair failing out, stomach diseases and exhaustion. If you are overweight and you hate your appearance you have bigger risk to get anorexia then people who are satisfied with their body.

There are also some other reasons of the development of this disease such as family or social conflicts, stresses or some diseases which lead to anorexia, but the main factor which unite all these people is low self-evaluation, which leads to the corrupt perception of their body.

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Questions to the audience: Why do people have low self-evaluation? What are the reasons? How can we raise it?

Scientists assert that our low self-evaluation is the result of someone’s reaction or the absence of it. So they give advice to keep a diary and to write down something pleasant about your appearance that was said by other people and to read this list from time to time. Also it is useful to find something that you like in yourself, some part of your body or some feature and think better about what you like rather than about what you don’t like.

In developed countries anorexia affects 2 out of 100 girls aged 12 to 24. In addition the higher the scale of living is, the higher is a probability to get ill. I specially set off the age with the red color to focus your attention that such young girls suffer from this disease.

Questions to the audience: How do you think what’s the reason of it? And what role does our society play in this problem?

You are right that every day in the media we see too thin girls and we are taught from our childhood that it is beautiful. So after beginning of the reproductive growth girls can’t perceive adequately the changes which happen with their bodies.

Now I would like to speak about parents. I think that every normal parent would notice that his child didn’t eat at all. How do people suffered from anorexia manage to go without food to your mind?

Now I will show you how they do it.

Watching the video.

So you have understood that she talks, puts questions to distract attention, simulates eating, asks for more and then just leaves.

Question to the audience: Maybe you have something to say about what you have just seen or about anorexia in general? How can the society cope with this disease?

Stress

Boiko Ludmila

Stress is evident everywhere in our fast-paced world. It’s a mental, emotional, or physical strain caused by anxiety or overwork. We all feel stress and often suffer the results of it in some way or other. Stress is difficult to define or measure. Some people thrive on a busy lifestyle and are able to cope well with life crises. Other people feel tensed or stressed by the slightest deviation from their set daily routine.

What is stress?

The signs of stress:

• Not being able to sleep properly with worries going through your mind.

• Being impatient or irritable (несдержанный) at minor problems.

• Not being able to concentrate due to many things going through your mind.

• Being unable to make decisions.

• Drinking or smoking more.

• Not enjoying food so much.

• Being unable to relax, and always feeling that something needs to be done.

• Feeling tense. Sometimes this includes a 'knot' in the stomach, or feeling sweaty with a dry mouth or a thumping heart.

If you have more than 3 signs you have a stress.