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Crying for Help

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The movie ‘Crying for Help' gets construed as a documentary that lays focus on four

young women. The women get noted to undergo similar struggle of dealing with anorexia. An

emotional disorder that makes an individual develop an obsessive desire to lose weight.

Therefore, this paper gets founded on the women concerning the disorder demonstrated. The

paper reviews how the synopsis and the movie, in general, depict their struggles in different

measures. Finally, it ends by giving a clear direction of my reaction towards the film.

The synopsis presents Brittany, a 15-year-old lady who makes several attempts of

acquiring a thin body to get accepted among her colleagues. Her mother got noted to suffer

similar disease. The second woman gets depicted as Shelly whose age gets confirmed at 25

years. For the past six years, she gets recorded to battle with anorexia. Alisa, a 30-year-old and

divorced mother, gets construed as the third person going through her struggles with the disease.

Finally, the last individual gets noted as Polly who places a record for struggling with anorexia

treatment and facing various challenges of the health facilities' policies and procedures (Lauren,

2006). Therefore, the subject of the movie gets noted on anorexia and the validation get based on

the individuals in question.

The film goes further to present the disorder in a manner that deviates it from issues

related to food, self-esteem or even body image but a matter that get based on familial, cultural

and health-related cases. The movie also highlights some challenges that victims of the disorder

goes through. For example, Shelly gets noted to struggle with the disorder for more than six

years. She gets mentioned to enter Renfrew with a feeding tube that gets surgically implanted in

her stomach. On the other hand, despite Polly getting able to go for medication, he cannot

manage to comply with the health institution's policies and procedure (Lauren, 2006).
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On the management side, the movie depicts a fully finished health facility that helps to

take care of those suffering from the disorder. They get quality treatment, and their recovery

journey gets monitored by the health practitioners. Cindy Gretzula who gets noted as the director

of nursing ensures that every patient gets taken care of during medication (Michael and Mathew,

2012). The facility also gives the victims the chance to talk about their experiences and the end

results gets noted on the quality of attendance they get from the medical practitioners.

In consideration of the mentioned, my reaction gets directed towards the need of

developing more equipped facilities to help in curbing the rising numbers of anorexia victims.

The facilities should set up various sections that may assist the victims of the disorder to talk

about their conditions. The insurance companies should also reconsider their policy of only

covering obesity and bring on board both anorexia and bulimia. The reason behind the

reconsideration gets based on the rising number of patients with the disorders as discussed in the

paper. If the review gets taken into a note, victims like Polly will not get to worry anymore about

their healing journey.

Conclusion

In summary, anorexia disorder should get considered as a dangerous disorder that

requires thorough treatment as demonstrated in the movie. There should be the development of

more prospective facilities that allows victims to talk about their conditions and receive adequate

treatments. Insurance companies should equally play a role in assuring patients suffering from

the disorder but not generalizing it under obesity.

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References

Lauren Greenfield, Published on November 14, 2006, the synopsis of The Movie "Crying for

Help," Retrieved from http://www.laurengreenfield.com/index.php?p=KZQ3GTAF

Michael Hutchence, Mathew Jones, Published on Sep 30, 2012, the Movie "Crying for Help,"

Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL3FeQU4HjU