Anorexia Nerviosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder and psychological as well. This condition goes beyond weight control: the patient starts a diet to lose weight until it becomes a symbol of power and control.Thus, the individual comes to the brink of starvation in order to feel control over their own bodies. This obsession is similar to an addiction to any drug or substance. Today, recorded 4 cases ofanorexia per thousand people.

The essential features of this disorder are distortion of body image, without recognizing the progress of thinness and the general feeling of ineffectiveness. At first itis only a matter of degree what differentiates the anorexic / or others: to a failure or following the advice of a friend comes the desire to lose weight. They put on a diet and become great expertsin the world of nutrition, following some harsh slogans and much more rigid than those of her friends. When the others have stopped dieting, the person with anorexia continues. People says she's tooskinny and she loves to hear. He likes to be encouraged to continue to lose even more weight. Begins to develop specific and rigid eating habits: eating only certain foods in certain quantities, somefood into small pieces and separates ... Although hungry is such fear letting go that feels the need to mitigate its effects and avoid weight gain by drinking plenty of water, using laxatives orvomiting or making excessive physical activity. All these abnormal behaviors are emphasized as the disease progresses, like physical complications: starvation the body becomes more vulnerable to infections,gastrointestinal problems or hypothermia. You lose your period, hair fall, skin dries and loses color. On a psychological level symptoms of depression, mood changes and body image distortion that isoften accompanied by a denial of the problem. They remain fat despite being emaciated or continue to express great dissatisfaction with their body image. His body has become the definition of their...