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Eating Disorder: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulmia Nervasa, Binge eat
RECOVERY IS IGNORING THE PRESSURE TO BE PERFECT
Anorexia is an eating disorder causing people to obsess about their weight and what they eat. Anorexia is characterized by a distorted body image, with an unwarranted fear of being overweight. An eating disorder that causes a severe and strong fear of gaining weight. You may have an altered view of being fat even when you are dangerously thin. You may use extreme exercise, calorie and food limitations, or binging and purging to control your weight.
Psychotherapy is extremely effective for anorexia. It helps to identify the sources of the negative thoughts and replace them with healthier thinking patterns. Therapy is also useful to build self-esteem and confidence, which is extremely important to overcome anorexia.
Anorexia Nervosa is a serious eating disorder. An individual with anorexia nervosa disorder either severely restricts their food intake or starves themselves, which leads to dramatic weight loss and extreme thinness. In order to prevent weight gain, people with this disease consume extremely low-calorie diet foods. Individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa might fear gaining weight even after eating until they feel satisfied. They would be constantly monitoring their weight. Lack of food would cause a lot of psychological and physical problems. It is possible for someone who has anorexic problem to develop obsessive compulsive disorder as well. The prevalence of anorexia worldwide ranges from 0.3% to 1%, with women being more susceptible than men.
SYMPTOMS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA
· Excessive exercise
· Cutting food into small piece
· Irritability
· Withdrawal from social activities
· Depressed mood, Hunger denial
· Use of diuretics (type of drug used for excessive urination) laxatives (constipation pills) diet pills.
· Regularly checking weight
- Psychological symptoms
· Excessive concern about being fat or overweight.
· Frequently measuring and weighing themselves and inspecting their bodies in the mirror
· Obsession with food, for example, reading cookery books.
· Lying about food intake
· Not eating or refusing to eat
· Self-denial
· Lack of emotion
· Depressed mood
· Reduced sex drive
· Memory loss
· Obsessive-compulsive behavior
· Irritability
· Over-exercising
- Physical Symptoms
· Fatigue
· Insomnia
· Inability to maintain normal body weight.
· Yellow or blotchy skin covered with soft, fine hairs.
· Hair thinning or hair falling
· Constipation
· Dry skin
· Low blood pressure
CAUSES OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Environmental Causes
An individual worrying about what other people may think of his weight and appearance. Their goal is to become like the idols that the society aspires to be. Another factor could be that you're in a difficult relationship. Additionally observed throughout puberty or any stressful occurrence.
Psychological Causes
OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder may also lead to anorexia disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder is often directly connected with eating disorders. Often, eating disorders are characterized by behaviors similar to that seen in OCD, such as obsessive thoughts about food and calories, food rituals such as cutting food symmetrically, or hoarding of food items.
For an individual who is struggling with an eating disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, foods are chosen based on color. Weight, shape, etc, and often the two conditions are linked through the attempt to obtain perfectionism.
DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
There are three diagnosed criteria for anorexia:
a) Does the person weigh less than the minimum that is considered normal for their age, sex, stage of growth and development, and physical health.
b) Does the person have an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat or display ongoing behavior that interferes with weight gain even though the individual is at a significantly low weight.
c) Does the person show a disturbance in the way they view their body weight or shape; does their body weight or shape have a strong influence on their self-image; does the person lack recognition of the seriousness of their current low body weight.
TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ANOREXIA
Treatment for anorexia is generally done using a team approach, which includes doctors, mental health professionals, and dieticians, all with experience in eating disorders. Ongoing therapy and nutrition education are highly important to continued recovery.
Family-based therapy: - This is the only evidence-based treatment for teenagers with anorexia. Because the teenager with anorexia is unable to make good choices about eating and health while in the grips of this serious condition, this therapy mobilizes parents to help their child with re-feeding and weight restoration until the child can make good choices about health.
Individual therapy: - For adults, cognitive behavioral therapy — specifically enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy — has been shown to help. The main goal is to normalize eating patterns and behaviors to support weight gain. The second goal is to help change distorted beliefs and thoughts that maintain restrictive eating.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: - enhanced for eating disorders (CBT‐E) is usually the first treatment
recommended for adults. This is typically delivered over 40 weekly sessions.
PREVENTION OF ANOREXIA
There are many things that we, our friends, family members, and teachers can do to help ease the pressures that could lead your loved one developing anorexia, including the following:
· Tell them being extremely thin isn’t better.
· Put more importance on their personality than their looks.
· Encourage them to be honest about their feelings.
· Build their self-esteem.
· Teach them about the dangers of dieting.
· Let them know that you don’t expect them to be perfect because perfection doesn’t exist.
WHAT IS THE LONG-TERM OUTLOOK OF THE ANEROXIA DISORDER: -
Many people recover anorexia disorder within 4-6 months of continues treatment. For some people to get cured from anorexia disorder, it would require several years of treatment.
COMPLICATIONS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Anorexia nervosa can also cause physical complications including:
* Anaemia
* Intestinal problems
* problems with your immune system
* an irregular heartbeat or other heart problems
* osteoporosis and bone problems that can increase the risk of broken bones.
* kidney failure
Anorexia nervosa can be life threatening. This can be due to the physical or psychological impacts of the disease. Mental health complications can include self-harm, substance abuse and suicide.
