Summer has anorexia nervosa and is slowly starving herself to death. However, when friends or family tell her to seek professional help, she tells them that she feels fine. She can’t understand why people won’t just leave her alone, and she ignores the increasingly severe physical symptoms that she is experiencing as a result of her drastic weight loss. She also fails to realize that the number of work days she has missed as a result of this is threatening her job security. In this example, Summer’s eating disorder would most likely be considered
a. culturally deviant.
b. delusional.
c. maladaptive.
d. personally distressing
Maladaptive
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