Mental anorexia – medico-legal psychiatric risks
Mental anorexia – medico-legal psychiatric risks

Summary/Abstract: Mental health is not a destination, but a process. It Is about "how you drive, not where you go". In a broad sense, anorexia is an eating disorder, which consists in the voluntary decrease in food intake, which can reach most extreme cases with the cessation of feeding. In the context of this mental illness analysed by this material, it can be concluded that the implications are from small to most serious, even reaching catastrophes, irreversible trauma and even causing the death of the victim. This paper tries to highlight the medico-legal and social risks of this condition, even if it is a rare but constantly growing mental disorder due to the challenges that adolescents are currently going through. From the analysis of the practical cases briefly exposed in the chapter dedicated to this analysis, we have exemplified with two cases examined at European legislative level.

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