Anorexia: symptoms and treatment
The standards of modern beauty require every self-respecting girl to be thin. But we are all different, with different natural data. Often, in pursuit of beauty, girls bring themselves to exhaustion and earn themselves anorexia.
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Symptoms of anorexia
In desire lose weight women initially suppress the feeling of hunger, sharply reduce the portions of food, and eventually refuse it altogether. There comes a time when the need to eat causes overwhelming disgust and even vomiting. Even a tiny portion of food for a girl looks like a heavy overeating. These are all symptoms of a disease called anorexia. It causes many diseases that are associated with disturbed from constant starvation metabolism and mental disorders.
You can recognize anorexia by the first signs, if you look closely and listen to the girl:
- All the conversations of these girls revolve around the topic of losing weight.
- She refuses to eat high-calorie foods.
- Some girls even go hungry.
- The girls are constantly depressed.
During this period, it is very important to provide the girl with psychological and moral assistance. If this is not done, then soon the disease will develop further. A woman gradually reduces the amount of not only high-calorie food, but also food in general. But the amount of water you drink is increasing all the time. Girls begin to get rid of the food they have eaten, artificially causing themselves to vomit. To quickly lose weight enemas, diuretics and laxatives are used.
Further inaction leads to the fact that the disease begins to manifest itself on the girl's appearance. Her skin is thinning loses tone and peels off all the time. The muscles gradually atrophy, and the subcutaneous fat layer disappears altogether. Bones are clearly visible through the thinned skin, teeth also suffer and deteriorate, as do hair and nails.
Internal organs begin to undergo changes - blood pressure drops and temperature drops. The heart, gastrointestinal tract suffers, the woman feels weak, her desire to move at all disappears.
Causes of anorexia
Anorexia can occur as a result of various circumstances. These include nervous disorders, and malignant neoplasms, hormonal disruptions and many other ailments. Anorexia, which occurs in the mentally ill, is caused by their pathological condition. In most cases, the causes of mental anorexia include delusional states, severe depressive disorder, catatonic stupor, or schizophrenia.
Anorexia nervosa
Most often, the term "anorexia" means a disease that occurs under the influence of a nervous disorder. This type of anorexia occurs for a variety of reasons. But basically they all boil down to the following:
- Unhealthy mental environment in the family. These people cannot exist with each other. Conflicts constantly reign in the family, each of its members is busy only with themselves. Often there are dependent people in the family, for example, those suffering from drug addiction or alcoholism or other addiction. In such families, children are left to their own devices, and then the adolescent child becomes ill with anorexia.
- Some girls have a wrong perception of their own body. Such persons perceive themselves to be too fat and ugly. Even if the mirror says exactly the opposite. The reason for this behavior lies in low self-esteem - girls consider themselves to be failures and want at least to get an "ideal" figure.
- Desperate need for love and acceptance. Many plump girls go unnoticed by the opposite sex. Then they begin to lose weight in order to gain the sympathy of other people. And indeed, when girls lose weight, they begin to be interested. This positive result is encouraging. In an effort to further consolidate the achievement, girls continue to lose weight, even when the need for this has already disappeared.
Anorexia in children
Sometimes this serious ailment can even develop in children. Usually the reason for this is the overly authoritarian behavior of the parents. Parents do not feed the child according to the regimen, usually monotonous food, overfeed. As a result, the baby cannot eat when he is really hungry and in the amount he would like. Gradually, the child develops a negative attitude towards food in general. The stereotypes and standards of society that promote the cult of thinness make their contribution.
The symptoms of anorexia in babies are manifested primarily in a sharp weight loss, they do not want to eat and try to eat less. The development of the disease leads to the fact that the child ceases to gain in height, his body temperature drops. Children with anorexia get tired quickly and cannot sleep. Outwardly, the disease manifests itself in delamination of nails, hair loss, and pale skin. Girls stop menstruating.
Changes concern not only the appearance and physical condition of the child, but also in the psyche. Children begin to treat their bodies negatively, against the background of this, a persistent depressive state develops, self-esteem falls. Teenagers try to be alone with themselves, do not communicate with their peers. With the further development of the disease, the child develops a persistent negative attitude towards food in general, he is concerned about his own figure and constant weight loss.
How do you get anorexia?
It is generally accepted that anorexia is a purely female disease. At the same time, young women are ill with it. But this is not entirely true. As we noted above, children can develop anorexia as well. And recent studies have identified cases of anorexia among males.
Most often, an unstable psyche and an obsession with losing weight leads to anorexia. The disease develops in people with an unstable psyche who tend to succumb to suggestion and are unable to arrange their personal life.
This leads to the fact that public opinion begins to dominate common sense. The idea of the equivalence of slimness and beauty turns into mania. Moreover, the appearance, beautiful and slender, becomes the key to success. Girls do not understand that photos and stage images often do not correspond to reality, and they strive to bring to life what they see on the screen.
Treatment of anorexia
It is very difficult to cure this disease. It is much more difficult to heal than other eating disorders. As with other addictions, the success of the treatment undertaken depends entirely on the patient's awareness of the problem.
Treatment is reduced to the following stages:
- First, the doctor develops a therapy that is aimed at restoring physical condition. Body weight is normalized, the effects of starvation and disorders of internal organs are eliminated.
- Then, normal eating habits are gradually formed.
- A person is taught to perceive his body normally.
- The patient is being treated for depression, anxiety and other mental disorders.
- The person is gradually taught to communicate with other people.
It should be noted that a specific treatment system is developed individually for each patient. This requires the help of qualified specialists. Therefore, one should not hope that relatives or the patient himself will be able to cure anorexia.
