Overview

An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one's physical and mental health. Eating disorders are all encompassing. They affect every part of the person's life. According to the authors of Surviving an Eating Disorder, "feelings about work, school, relationships, day-to-day activities and one's experience of emotional well being are determined by what has or has not been eaten or by a number on a scale." Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are the most common eating disorders generally recognized by medical classification schemes, with a significant diagnostic overlap between the two. Together, they affect an estimated 5-7% of females in the United States during their lifetimes. There is a third type of eating disorder currently being investigated and defined - Binge Eating Disorder. This is a chronic condition that occurs when an individual consumes huge amounts of food during a brief period of time and feels totally out of control and unable to stop their eating. It can lead to serious health conditions such as morbid obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Anorexia - What Goes on Mentally When Your Daughter Has Been Suffering From Anorexia?

Much of the mental activity of an anorexic leaves small amount of time for friends and loved ones. The young girl will eventually become anti social and detach herself from others. Her primary focus is to fight her body's hunger. The hunger she is trying to face is her brain's message telling her that if she keeps losing weight, calories cant be used to keep the body warm and full of energy. These calories also can't be used to keep up a normal heart and blood pressure. Skin wrinkles around her arms and knees. She mistakes the skin wrinkles for more fat and continues her excessive weight loss behavior.

The skin wrinkles are actually a sign that her body has shrunk more than her skin can even contract. Her skin doesn't seem to fir her undersized body anymore because of her behavior. As the anorexic loses more and more weight, she cant help but to think about food all the time. She may even start to develop a sleep disorder because she constantly thinks about food and eating. These thoughts lead her to think that if she gives in to eating she will become fat. The young girl's brain is trying to tell her to eat before she dies of starvation. She remains confused and continues her behavior to limit her intake and food and drinks in order to remain thin. Later on the anorexic may even develop a phobia of food and liquid along with a phobia of fat.



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Added: November 29, 2009
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