Depresión anorexia y bulimia

Relationship on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Depression
Alejandra Ortiz
Northeastern Illinois University

Relationship on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Depression
One of the most concerning issues that society has are the eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, especially in women. Thin people are the ones that appear on the magazines as the most attractive and influence others to think this way,to the point where being skinny and bony becomes an obsession for some. Garcia-Villamisar, Dattilo, and Del Pozo suggest that “Eating disorder symptoms are motivated by a strong need to conform to an ideal of perfection as demanded by self of others” (2012, p. 9-10). Pushing to the side the internal values and focusing only in the outer appearance. This obsession, then, takes some people to astate of depression because they need to feel thin in order to fit it. When they are not able to accomplish this, then it pushes the individual into a deeper depression, making this a never ending cycle.
Past research shows that the cycle continues even after subjects are under a recovery program, showing signs of always trying to stay thin, as well as high signs of depression and low self- esteem(Stein et al., 2001). Research also shows that not only depression and eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia go hand in hand; they also start to show high numbers of male subjects going through the same thing. O’Dea (2009), for example, gave a standardized test, to both males and females, which ranged from zero to ten and tested the correlation of depression and self-perception. O’Deafound that both males and females that scored below five had a low self-perception that included eating disorders, and also high levels of anxiety and depression. The present study hypothesizes that depression, anorexia, and bulimia, have a positive correlation because the more severe the case of anorexia or bulimia is on a person, the higher the depression. All of these variables are distinguishedby different characteristics and symptoms making them unique.
According to Brouwers (1988) bulimia is an eating disorder characterized by episodes of excessive eating and excessive vomiting afterwards. Excessive eating can cause pleasure at the moment because the person is turning his attention and thoughts to food instead of anything else he might be repressing. After the effect of pleasure isgone then the remorse of eating so much becomes so overwhelming that the person goes straight to purging in order to get rid of all the food that he just ate. Bulimia, is characterized by a feeling of shame and guilt because the person broke the dietary rules when he binged all the food; as well as anxiety because now the person has the need of making up for all the food binging through purging(Stice & Fairburn, 2003). This also becomes a cycle that one is not able to control without professional help. O’Dea (2009) categorizes bulimia as periods of eating and binging uncontrollably. When someone does not have control over his or her own actions is because there might be something else going on internally that causes them to act this way. Bulimia is closely connected with other eatingdisorders such as anorexia.
Pollatos et al. (2012) states that anorexia is a long self-starvation when a person could go without eating for long periods of time and experience high levels of hunger. Anorexia is known as an eating disorder where the person is willing to starve themselves in order to stay thin. Research shows that suicide is the second cause of death in anorexic people (Fennig& Hadas, 2010). Anorexia is a disturbing eating disorder because in order to stay thin a person could take desperate measures such as starvation. Even when the person goes through a severe treatment to fight this disorder, the repercussions are still harsh. The need for a strict routine, perfectionism, very rigid standards in their life style is the outcome of a severe illness and treatment for...