I am sure that there are people who never even heard this word - «anorexia», many have heard, but do not know his meanings. If this is so - you are very lucky, but there are those who have faced this problem face to face.
What you need to know about anorexia
Anorexia is a disease accompanied by disorder of food behavior, and what is very important, Mental disorder, which is expressed in high attention to the volume of the food taken and their own weight.
Anorexiki - People who are afraid To gain weight and drift themselves hunger. Most often, young girls who have seen on the photo of models in magazines and fashion shows on TV, choose their way to dreams, changing the diet. Their path to anorexia begins with the fact that, fond of diets and starvation, they bring their body to complete exhaustion, often their weight is much lower than the norm. Having created an illusory picture of the future, they lose weight, but seeing that life did not change and the dream was not realized, they attribute all the failures of their still not enough ideal figure and continue to argue themselves with hunger on. It seems to them that if they become thin, then tomorrow, all the doors will open in front of them and their lives will change dramatically.
At some stage, this problem becomes a psychological, a person is not able to abandon the obsessive lifestyle, it eats very little, in the end, getting used to it, the body launches the self-destruction program.
It should be distinguished by really patients anorexia from just thin people. Anorexia is not only physical ugliness, but also serious mental illness. This is not a model of behavior, but a diagnosis.
If you have noticed that your daughter, a girlfriend, a niece, my beloved, has become less than usual, often completely refuses to eat, inventing excuses, you should watch her and if your concerns are confirmed, urgently seek help to specialists. Such types of behaviors may say that a close man has risen on a path that can lead to serious illness - anorexia.
Symptoms
Anorexiks love to talk about food, diets and calorie products, and even with pleasure prepare all sorts of dishes. The correctness of nutrition is so strongly occupied by such people that food becomes a favorite topic of conversations. They are fascinatingly read about each product, calculating its calorie and strictly followed by the rules of meals themselves. In addition to psychological signs, anorexia has physical. The following list of symptoms, for which you can recognize the disease, quite extensive. But it is worth noting that the presence of one or more signs does not necessarily mean that a person has anorexia.
Symptoms of anorexia:
- perverted understanding of his body;
- low self-esteem;
- often weighed and looks in the mirror;
- Fear of gaining weight;
- frequent mood swings;
- depression;
- avoids communication, refuses meetings with friends;
- Prepares for food close, but does not eat himself;
- increased criticality to itself and others;
- awkwardness during food intake in the presence of other people;
- increased cleanliness and accuracy;
- dry skin, nail and hair fragility;
- poverty face and sealed eyes;
- loss of appetite;
- weight loss;
- anemia;
- height delay, in case this is a teenager;
- infertility
- Cold legs and hands, reduced body temperature;
- dizziness, muscle weakness, shortness of breath, reinforced heartbeat;
- Increased joints;
- impairment of the menstrual cycle, possibly a complete absence of menstruation;
- bloating and constipation;
- Increased joints;
- osteoporosis;
- fainting.
As a rule, people sick anorexia constantly feel the fear of food. This fear does not let go of his victim even when a person stands on the verge of depletion. Most often, the causes of the disease lies in low self-esteem. For example, the daughter of one of my friend brought himself to a hospital bed, sowing on a diet and losing weight up to 40 kg and this is height 164 cm, although its weight was absolutely normal before it - 55 kg. Not only doctors were connected, but also psychologists who learned the true cause. The fact is that the girl unrequited fell in love, and her chosen one preferred another. Long looking for the reason for such injustice, she came to the conclusion that all this due to the fact that the briefness is a little thin of her. Even a fairly loses, she never achieved the location of the guy, seeing the root of evil in a non-ideal figure, she continued his experiences over himself and brought himself to that state when the body stopped perceiving food. Of course, parents put every effort, long fought for her daughter and now it is a pretty successful beautiful girl, but you can not always help in time.
Treatment of anorexia
In advanced cases, the treatment of the disease can last 5 years. The treatment process itself is mainly lies in the psychological support of the patient, because there is no desire to be treated in a patient. It is important not only to bring the patient from starvation, but to teach rebuild. It is necessary to redirect his thoughts to a new course, put other priorities in life.
According to statistics, more than 60% of patients who have begun treatment are returned to a normal lifestyle, children give birth and live without any consequences. About 20% of patients with anorexia are recovered, but have consequences in the form of relapses, periodically pass through therapy and examination courses.
The first stage of treatment includes restoring physical health. The fact is that there are patients who fall into the hospital in a very serious condition, they can no longer have independently, the body's nutrition occurs through a dropper. This patient is gradually derived from such a state, including the necessary products. The problem lies in the other: during the rejection of food, such a person acquired diseases of various bodies that cannot be cured, just starting to eat. Sometimes for the treatment of such patients takes a lot of time.
One of the important methods of treating anorexia is a course of psychotherapy, when a doctor and patient together find out the causes of the disease and are looking for ways to overcome it. Psychotherapist helps to believe in itself and get rid of distorted performance from his own body.
If the nervous system was affected due to the disease, this patient prescribe sedatives that help to cope with fears and anxieties.
What is dangerous anorexia, its consequences
Anorexia is a rather dangerous disease, health consequences may be irreversible. Before sitting on a diet, without consulting a doctor, know that people who want to be beautiful and slender, risk acquiring quite a lot of problems for life.
So, if a person voluntarily exposes himself with starvation, blood flow slows down, decreases blood pressure, There is a loss of important minerals, in the end there is a violation of the electrolyte balance. It negatively affects the work of the cardiovascular system. The main cause of death among such patients - heart disease.
Hormonal violations - The most dangerous consequence of anorexia. In such people, the levels of hormones of the thyroid gland and the reproductive system are sharply falling, and the level of stress hormones increases much. As a result, such diseases such as osteoporosis and infertility may develop. If not starting treatment on time, then it is not easy to restore the menstrual cycle.
In view of the lack of nutrients, the body of such patients saves energy, many processes slow down, including digestion. Most often, patients with anorexia are experiencing a constant bloating and constipation.
Anorexia - a disease that at a certain point begins to influence the activity of the brain. In some cases, convulsions, numbness of limbs and thinking disorders appear.
Lack of vitamins and minerals often lead to anemia. Low hemoglobin over long time leads to a change in the structure of the brain.
The consequences of anorexia is a lot - both liver damage, and weakened immunity, and dehydration, and intolerance of the cold, t.E. violation of the internal organs.
The main thing is to understand that anorexia is a disease in which there is no one to blame. Neither parenting parents nor personal qualities of a person can affect the acquisition of this disease. Anorexiki are not proud of their thin figure and do not feel the most beautiful. These people are frightened and their fears are driven into the corner, they need professional assistance to doctors.
Let's be more attentive to the surrounding (girlfriend, neighbor, colleague), if you see that the person has the first signs of this disease, connect relatives and close to solving this problem. After all, it is possible to overcome everything!
