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Article DetailsGetting to Grips With Eating Disorders |
| Date Added: June 24, 2010 11:01:16 AM |
| Author: vagleria54 |
| Category: Health: Weight Issues |
| An eating disorder is an illness that adversely affects all aspects of each sufferer's life, is triggered by various emotional factors and influences. In this article we will touch upon Anorexia and Bulimia. Eating disorder sufferers have a low self-esteem and often an intense need to control their surroundings and emotions. Anorexia is a unique response to various external and internal conflicts, such as strain, concern, unhappiness and feeling as if life is out of control. An Anorexic may be exceedingly sensitive about being perceived as fat, or have a deep fear of becoming fat - although not all Anorexia sufferers experience this fear. They may fear to lose control over the amount of food they consume, accompanied by the craving to gain stringent control over their emotions and reactions to their emotions. This makes them turn to obsessive dieting and starvation as a way to control not only their body weight, but what they feel and how they act. Some also think that they do not merit pleasures of life, and will stay away from situations offering pleasure (including eating). Some of the behavioral signs can be: calorie and fat gram counting, starvation and restriction of food, obsessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, the use of weight loss medications, laxatives or diuretics to to control weight, and a persistent concern over the body image. Bulimia sufferers seek binge and purge episodes - they will eat too much in a comparatively short period and then use behaviors such as winning diuretics or laxatives or self-induced vomiting - as they feel overwhelmed in coping with their emotions, or in order to punish themselves. This can be in direct relation to how they feel about themselves, or how they feel about a particular event or series of events in their lives. Those suffering from Bulimia may seek binge and purge episodes to avoid and let out feelings of anger, depression, stress or concern. Recurring episodes of binging followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of losing control over food consumption, regularly engaging in strict diet plans and exercise, the misuse of diuretics or laxatives, and/or weight loss solutions and a persistent concern about the body image can all be warnings of Bulimia. The two illnesses have a lot of similarities, the commonest being the trigger. They are complex emotional issues. Though they may seem to be nothing more than a health-threatening obsessive weight concern on the surface, for most men and women having an eating disorder there are deeper emotional conflicts to be handled. |
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