title: Eating disorders: A serious problem of mental health seeks solution.
abstract: Eating Disorders are a group of mental disorders with considerable peculiarities and present a challenge for both the scientific community and the general public. More specific in our country a great attention and concern has being observed recently, caused to some extend by the role of public media, as they turned to "inform" about these disorders. Popular television programs are frequently focusing on famous individuals suffering from the disorder. Or they deal with dramatic presentation of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) cases, as they describe their wander around from inpatient services of general hospitals to private practices either of psychiatrists who only prescribed psychopharmaceutics drugs or gynecologists who recommended oral contraceptives.
authors.affiliation: Assoc. Professor of Psychiatry, A' Psychiatric Department University of Athens, Eginition Hospital.
authors.forename: Eleftheria
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Varsou