Anorexia nervosa

Introduction

To eating disorders include: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorders in the form of binge eating (uncontrolled overeating). Although anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating are considered to some extent separately from each other, many problems are mutually disjoint.

Therefore, everyone who encounters them will be helpful to familiarize themselves with all three disorders, and not to dwell on only one of them. In addition, the same people at different periods of his life suffer various eating disorders.

Discussion

Anorexia nervosa - a severe mental or physical illness, a characteristic feature of which is a significant loss of body weight (usually 30 percent or more by weight of the body that correspond to the age and growth of the individual). The vast majority of anorexia nervosa symptom is found within teenage girls, although it can strike people of all ages, including boys and men. (Frude 53)

Anorexia nervosa is primarily associated with the fear of gaining weight on one side and with a sense of low self-esteem - with the other... Anorexia is taken to adopt the girls as a radical, a potent tool for weight loss. And most importantly, requires no cost. All you need to do - refuse to eat. Gradually the extreme concern for power leads to the fact that girls are very particular about eating habits, carefully selected products to your diet, at first mainly to avoid carbohydrates and fats, then the number of "forbidden" are almost all products. The final stage of anorexia is the strongest physical exhaustion until death.

Even if they weigh less than 40 kg, they can feel "too fat". Such a perception of the body caused by exhaustion and malnutrition of the brain, so to convince them otherwise is almost impossible. This makes it difficult to provide timely care to patients with anorexia nervosa.

Some of them know that they are exhausted, but the fear of eating is extremely deep. Fear does not disappear, even if the weight is reduced. Moreover, the fear and the desire to starve increases with decreasing weight. In other words the distorted perception of your body becomes more pronounced, the more weight is lost. In this self-identity as it becomes distorted and is directly linked with the ability to refuse food and achieve weight loss. (Cooper 511)

Losing weight is regarded as a sign of success and self-discipline, whereas weight gain is perceived as a failure and loss of self-control.

At the core of anorexia nervosa, as well as other eating disorders, psychosocial problems lie, rather a combination of social, individual and family factors. Eating disorders represent the unconscious inner struggle of human individuality, his presentation of himself in the society and the problems that often stem from traumatic experiences and models of socialization.

Eating disorders suggests that young people use food as an attempt to cope with his life, which becomes too painful and unmanageable for him. Focusing on food and control over food, in this case, for non-food, allows girls (most often a disease of young women) to limit so painful and ...