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Life-Threatening Eating Disorders - Anorexia and Bulimia |
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| Date Added: July 02, 2010 02:10:31 AM | |
| Author: vagleria54 | |
| Category: Health: Weight Issues | |
An eating disorder is an illness that badly affects all aspects of each sufferer's life, is triggered by a variety of emotional factors and influences. In this article we will touch upon Anorexia and Bulimia. Eating disorder sufferers are characterized as having a low self-esteem and frequently a desperate need to control their surroundings and emotions. The eating disorder Anorexia - is a unique response to a variety of outer and inner conflicts, such as stress, anxiety, unhappiness and feeling as if life is uncontrolled. Anorexia is a negative way to cope with these emotions. A person having Anorexia may be abnormally sensitive about being perceived as overweight, or have a strong fear of becoming fat - although not all Anorexia sufferers have this fear. They may fear to lose control of the amount of food they consume, coupled with the desire to gain strict control of their emotions and reactions to their emotions. This forces them to turn to obsessive body weight control and starvation as a means to control not only their body weight, but their feelings and actions. Some also feel that they do not merit the simple pleasures of life, and will stay away from situations offering pleasure, including eating. Common behavioral signs are: calorie gram counting, starvation and limitation of food, obsessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives or diuretics to to control body weight, and a constant concern with the body image. Men and women with Bulimia seek binge and purge episodes - they will consume a large amount of food in a comparatively short period of time 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. Bulimia sufferers may seek episodes of binging and purging to avoid and let out feelings of anger, depression, strain or anxiety. Recurring episodes of overeating followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of losing control over food consumption, regularly engaging in stringent dieting and exercise, the misuse of laxatives or diuretics, and/or diet pills and a persistent concern about the body image can all be warnings of Bulimia. The two illnesses have many similarities, the most common being the trigger. They are complicated emotional problems. Although they may seem to be nothing more than a dangerously obsessive body weight concern on the surface, for most sufferers there are deeper emotional conflicts to be handled. |
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