Discuss the risk of suicide in anorexia and bulimia

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

With medical complications being the number one cause of death, the second most common cause of death in those who suffer from anorexia
nervosa is suicide. Recent estimates suggest that
one out of five deaths in individuals with anorexia
nervosa is the result of suicide (Arcelus et al., 2011).
Somewhere between 3 and 23 percent of patients
with anorexia will make a suicide attempt, and rates
of completed suicide are 50 times greater than they
are in the general population (Franko & Keel, 2006;
Keel et al., 2003). It has been suggested that patients
who have lost their ability to maintain an "emotionally
protective" low body weight are at particularly
high risk of suicide (Crisp et al., 2006). Patients who
are older when they first receive clinical attention for their disorder are also more likely to have a premature death (Arcelus et al., 2011). Bulimia nervosa is not associated with increased risk of completed suicide, although suicide attempts are made in 25 to 30 percent of cases (Franko & Keel, 2006).
GRADING RUBRIC - 8 points total, 4 points for each of two factors discussed.