Eating disorder

Eating disorder

Eating disorder

Introduction

The term eating disorder pertains to the development of abnormal habits pertaining to the eating of an individual. It is a psychological facet that is induced in the livelihood of the individual, and therefore, is depicted through all the actions of the individual. The entire premise of eating disorder encompasses of some sort of psychological deprivation that emerges from the error in the cognition process of the individual, further translated into a psychological issue. Eating disorder encompasses of either excessive eating or insufficient eating. Eating disorder is a part of abnormal psychology that encompasses of deficiencies in the growth and development, and is usually noticed when the child reaches teenage.

The condition is defined as “a disorder that is demonstrated through abnormal eating linked to mental illness, it disturbs the everyday diet of a person, it leads to abnormal weight and stress in the living of the individual”. The eating disorder leads to anxiety, depression and substance abuse. Overeating or under-eating leads the person to enormous disruption and loop holes in the personality. Eating disorder is more towards the problem with the intake of the food by the individual. Abnormal eating takes place due to the neurons that either does not respond to the urge of hunger, or they respond too much.

Psychologists have a great deal agreed upon the idea that eating disorder needs enormous effort to be cured, and it needs more of mental persistence than the physical effort. The notion of the development of an eating disorder leads to serious diseases in the long-term. There are several types of eating disorders each with a primary and a secondary consequences leading to several diseases. These types are classified as;

Bulimia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa

EDONS

Binge

The paper mostly deals with bulimia nervosa, that is, the eating disorder demonstrated by overeating that is, eating after short intervals of time. It is defined as “an eating disorder that is characterized by frequent episodes of eating, whereas, consuming a large amount of food, as well as, attempting to get rid of the food one had by vomiting, medication or exercise due to the concern for body weight”. The anatomy of the term entails that the term Bulimia pertains to hunger, whereas, the term nervosa means 'affecting the nervous system'. The disease is very familial, as depicted by the researches, it encompasses of a 90-95%.

The paper studies the disease itself, as well as, the paradigms dealing with the study including the biological, psychological and social causes, the symptoms and consequences, as well as, the remedies and treatments available to the world. Research shows that out of the entire female population across the globe, it is an estimated calculation that 1% female population is suffering from Bulimia Nervosa. The disease causes serious health loses that persist throughout the life, and therefore, has to be controlled. The paper deals with the background and foreground of the disease in the light of the abnormal psychology.

Discussion

The term Bulimia nervosa pertains to the development of a ...