Brief Summary Of Treatment Plan 5: Portia De Rossi

Treatment Plan 5: Portia de Rossi Brief Summary The treatment plan and information contained in this paper is about a woman named Portia de Rossi. Her background information consists of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa diagnoses. Her father died when she was young, Portia grew up under her single mother as an aspiring model and actor. Portia began to live out her dreams, but that came along with many struggles, including her eating disorders. Portia’s eating disorders started subtle and gradually over time became severe to the point of a near death experience as well as multiple physical health conditions caused by her lack of health. Portia eventually reaches out to a nutritionist, but this does not help, instead her symptoms begin to

Portia soon after realized that she was homosexual and feared the public would judge her for her sexuality. She is now married to Ellen DeGeneres. Portia is now a fifty-one-year-old retired actress. Presenting Problem Portia was suffering from anorexia; she would create a fake food diary to show her nutritionist because she was continuing to fall into the trap of anorexia as her weight plummeted. Portia would severely restrict her calories, keep her apartment cold to help her body burn more calories, and even began to stop menstruating. At this point, Portia weighed around 100 pounds and people began to take notice of her extremely thin body weight. According to Whitbourne, S. K. & Halgin, R. P. (2013), “with this distorted mindset that is typical of those suffering from anorexia nervosa, Portia continued on her path to weight loss until she was down to a frightening, 82 pounds” (p. 363). Portia eventually developed physical health problems along with her mental health issues. Relevant History According to Whitbourne, S. K. & Halgin, R. P. (2013), since the age of twelve, Portia said “I’d never known a day where my weight wasn’t the determining factor for my self-esteem” (p.