Anorexia and Bulimia
Eating disorders anorexia and bulimia nervosa, including the most popular and most common events of the last two decades have become a real emergency mental health for the devastating effects they have on the health and lives of teenagers and young adults. In the United States, medical associations dealing with eating disorders do not hesitate, call a real epidemic that all social classes and ethnic groups different crosses.
If they are not treated in time and with the right methods, eating disorders can cause a permanent condition and in severe cases, death, mostly by suicide or cardiac arrest. According to the American Psychiatric Association, the main cause of death from mental disorders in Western countries. A study in the British journal The Lancet that this survey shows, the treatment is far more advanced in the case of bulimia nervosa, where they were more than fifty studies and trials, the administration searched for evidence-based practice is available. Less attention would be so far to spend on research into possible treatments of anorexia and other eating disorders.
Anorexia and bulimia are complex disorders, certain conditions of mental and emotional stress, so the handling of the food problem by saying that in its mental nature. The goal is to get the patient to the therapy with changing behaviors and attitudes towards the target and provides viable solutions to manage their emotional stress dat ze niet harmful to your health and a balanced diet of herstel. Can people of different age, sex, social origin, but are most common in young women 15 to 25 years.
What makes eating a mess?
In the center of the eating disorder that manifests as a complex disease caused by the interaction of a number of biological, genetic, environmental, social, psychological and psychiatric, the patient is still in an overestimation of the importance of his obsessive fitness weight and body and the need to gain control over it. One reason for the development of anorexia and bulimia practices highlighted are also part of the publicity (and intergenerational studies of twins have shown that eating disorders are most likely among the members of a person who is already sick, especially if it is the mother), the negative influence of other family and social components, the feeling of a high pressures and expectations, or strong otherwise be neglected by parents exposed to the object of ridicule feel for her physical form or unintended result of problems with weight and appearance. To some people this is a self-destructive trend that their eating behavior or abuse of alcohol or drugs to change.
Anorexia and bulimia may also on whether the individual is particularly traumatic situations, such as sexual violence, family dramas, abusive behavior of family members or outsiders are heavily dependent measures, social and family will be accepted. One of the reasons why a girl begins a diet subject to the need of an aesthetic standard that rewards thinness match, even in its excesses. According to many psychiatrists, in fact the current trend towards a model of feminine beauty, slimness has improved in favor of the devastating impact on the eating habits of many young people.
Physical and psychological effects
The effects of eating disorders are very difficult, both in terms of physical and mental. From the physical point of view the consequences of malnutrition and intestinal ulcers cause permanent damage to the tissues of the digestive tract, dehydration, damage to the gums and teeth, severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys, nervous system, problems with concentration and storage, damage to bones, with an increased risk of bone fractures and osteoporosis, growth disorders, internal bleeding, hypothermia, and swollen glands.
The psychological impact, but also depression, low self-esteem, feelings of shame and guilt, difficulties in maintaining social and family relationships, mood swings and dualistic tendency to manic behavior, tendency to perfectionism.
Symptoms and characteristics
Eating disorders are much different circumstances. The best known and most common are anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
Anorexia nervosa
A person is considered anorexic to stop or reduce their normal diet falls below 85% of normal weight for their age, sex and body weight. Anorexia is the refusal to take food to the cause, driven by an intense fear of weight gain or becoming fat, even though underweight. Someone with anorexia often begins, all food is to avoid fatty foods and focuses on “healthy” and low in calories, with an obsessive focus on calories and food composition and balance. Meals are often avoided or eaten very slowly, pondering each bite eaten long. The body is experienced and lived to form, as modified by excessive attention and the frequent refusal to the severity of the current status of underweight order.
Anorexia nervosa diagnosis is not always easy in the very young, because the changes associated with adolescence, physical, and the resulting imbalance in weight and size can mask the early stages. In children it is more common than anorexia is manifested by other symptoms such as nausea and no appetite. For the girls, but a classic symptom of the absence of menstruation for at least three months, is a symptom, but not for young people who had not considered the menarche, or vice versa, the girls contraceptive pill.
Anorexia occurs in two ways:
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the constraints imposed by the steady decrease in the amount of food destined registered.
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binge-eating and subsequent disposal: Power by obsessive self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics pills, over-exercise, followed to lose weight.
The person is obsessed with ending the diet, anorexia life fully focus on the food problem, preventing the interest and enthusiasm to try something else.
Bulimia Nervosa
A person is bulimic binge eating very different from what normally happens when you overeat. The typical characteristics of bulimic behavior:
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Taking too much to eat, sometimes to a few thousand calories in a very narrow period, eg hidden within two hours, and usually by other
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feel unable to stop eating and can not control their behavior
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The binge starts, and a very strong emotional impact
After eating so exaggerated that bulimic person usually feels guilty and wants to punish the vomiting, laxatives and diuretics, with the intention of taking pills to lose weight. If this behavior is repeated, for example, meets twice a week for three months, is facing a clear sign of the eating disorder. Rare patients with bulimia do not impose any punishment.
In the long term is a bulimic person hiding in a phase of depression and self-loathing and tried their behavior to others, even if the shape and appearance at the end of an obsession with learning and always have a strong influence on self-esteem. A person can be normal weight with bulimia, anorexia nervosa under-or overweight, as opposed to someone who is always under the weight. Moreover, the weight of a person bulimia vary enormously and can be used when swinging a symptom of the existence of an eating disorder.
Besides anorexia and bulimia, there is also a kind of eating disorder not defined. Not all cases are easily absorbed at the typical symptoms of anorexia and bulimia. Some people start with such a form of anorexia, but does not hold weight, behavioral drift into bulimia. According to the American Psychiatric Association, half of patients with anorexia also end up with symptoms of bulimia, and in some cases, patients develop anorexia, bulimia behavior.