After the death of Karen Carpenter word «anorexia» Before this acquaintance is mainly specialists, it became known to millions. When people know more about this disease, thin, perhaps, will come out of fashion.
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First victim
Brother and Sister Carpenters (The Carpenters Group) used an unusual success from the American public. The first began the musical career Richard, and soon the young Karen joined him soon. She performed as an accordionist, then Fleotist, then the drummer, until once it was found that she had a wonderful, clean, strong, from nature. Voice. It was this golden voice that made carpenters famous.
Karen received three «Grammy», released eight gold and five platinum albums, ten gold singles, her songs occupied five top lines in a charts. She bathed in glory, she admired her, she imitated, all the girls wanted to be like her.
She traveled with touring tours around the world, flashed on journal covers, on the TV screen – Beautiful smiling winner – And Umiral. She had a disease, a good acquaintance of doctors, but not at all known at the time to the general public: nervous anorexia.
In numbers
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90–95% suffering from nervous anorexia – girls and women;
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In the US, it is sick from 0.5 to 1% of young Americans, and those who have subclinical manifestations, much more;
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five–10% of all anorecticors dies. It's scary high percentage not only for mental, but in general for any disease.
Beautiful name for trouble beautiful girls
In those days, when the young mowed a char, beautifully considered strong addition, pleasant fullness and a healthy blush, and Khudoba was alarmed, frightened. Today she is in Favor, she turned her to Fetish, to a new religion. The pagan God thin demands victims – and gets them abundant.
Today is nervous anorexia – One of the main causes of the death of young girls and women. Under this beautiful name, a serious violation of food behavior is hidden, which is characterized by a focused refusal of food and dangerous low weight.
It can be called young disease. She steals young lives, and girls get sick about ten times more often than youth. Many are jealous «Happy lucky» and dream to look like they. Some would not refuse to get sick of this «wonderful» a disease that brings to a clear thin. Meanwhile, nervous anorexia – severe ailment with a bad forecast and high mortality. Of all the problems with whom the psychiatrist have, this is perhaps the most dangerous.
Patients anorexia most often do not recognize that they are threatened with danger, and they do not want to be treated strongly. In this they are akin to alcoholics and drug addicts.
Life in captivity of an obsession
Richard Carpenter recalled later that Karen was always «Tight girl». The first time she took to lose weight at 16 «Water diet», appointed by the doctor, and she managed to reduce the weight from 64 to 54 kg. Then Karen continued independently. When the weight reached 52 kg, she began to say that she looks cool. She replied that everything just begins, or it will still be, but at that time these words were not alarmed.
By 25 years old, Karen managed to achieve linedplates 36 kg. She regularly caused vomiting to get rid of that little, which was still eaten. Her body was so weak, which had to lie between the outlets on the scene.
Once in Las Vegas, she frightened her relatives and fans healthy, having lost consciousness during execution «Verses of the world», and at their insistence was sent to the hospital.
Doctors installed in Karen a weight deficit of 16 kg from the biological norm. Only then did she realize that she had a serious problem. Began to observe the doctors, and after some time decided that he was healthy.
However, in fact, her body continued to suffer from lack of nutrition, regular reception of laxatives, from insomnia and increased anxiety.
Sudden death in 1983 was a shock for the public, which considered Karen completely cured. Mother discovered her unconscious on the floor of a dressing room in their house in California and caused «ambulance», But it was too late. Heart, exhausted over the years voluntary starvation, stopped.
Genetically, Karen was not completely predisposed to that air honestobye, to which she sentenced himself.
Karen Carpenter was 32 years old, it weighed 49 kg with a height of 161 cm.
Heartlessness
Of course, not all suffering from anorexia, die. But there are all the problems of varying degrees of gravity, and most of them are connected with the heart. If the body does not feed the body, it starts «eaten» your own muscles, and the heart, as you know, also muscle, here it is «eaten» In the process of starvation.
If the disease is not detected at the very beginning and «Close up» For more than five years, the probability of death is very large for more than five years. As a rule, the cause of the work of the heart or suicide on the basis of the general depletion of the nervous system is becoming. It is also very dangerous low pressure, loss of muscle mass, weakness and severe dehydration, adversely affecting the work of the kidneys. To save the lives of these victims of fighting their body, hospitalization and intensive therapy can be needed.
All hope for loved ones
Unfortunately, today there are no ways to treat neron anorexia, excluding relapses. Therefore, most of the programs to combat it are focused rather to prevent: early detection of hereditary predisposition, genetic and psychological correction.
The treatment is complicated by the fact that, unlike patients with Bulimia (Bulimics), which often shame their problems and want to cure: go to doctors, visit group classes and forums, anorencecticists seek only to one – To leave them alone. Their psyche is seriously deformed, they refuse to cooperate with doctors and persistently implement a self-destruction program.
The trouble is also that people around them, including the closest, usually do not understand all the seriousness of the situation, do not take action at all or are trying to cope with the situation with the help of persuasion, threats, punishments that only worsen the case.
All we write, – not so much for anorecticors who have gone «in non-vocabulary», how many for their loved ones and for people «at-risk groups».
Risk factors Most professionals consider violations of food behavior or mental disorders from someone from relatives, as well as perfectionism (striving for excellence) in character and even just «Zocation» On diets.
After the death of Karen, young women who no longer dreamed of supervoy, and they just wanted to be alive and healthy, fill out reception psychologists and psychiatrists.
In a loud voice
The tragic story of Karen Carpenter, multiplied by her loud name, caused public interest in anorexia. Before that, numerous girls who stunned themselves hunger did not know about threatening danger. Each believed that she was one such that her case – unique.
After the wave of publications in the press followed the wave of appeals to doctors for help. Some famous and even famous sufferers decided to publicly admit that they are struggling with the same ailment who ruined Karen. Among them were Jane Fonda, Cherry Bun O'Neill – daughter singer Peta Buna. Also recognized their problems Gymnast Katie Rigby, actress Zhannin Turner and Lynn Radgrav.
All were frightened. Numerous support groups for people with nutritional violations arose spontaneously. Specialized clinics were opened in a short time. Richard Carpenter has created a fund in memory of his sister to finance scientific research in this area.
But by themselves scientific research and attention of the public does not solve the problem. Today, millions of people suffer from disorders of food behavior, and their number is rapidly increasing. It will grow further until the media stop imposing unreal standards and samples for imitation, literally fatally dangerous for young shower and bodies.
I last warning
«Signal rockets» Anorexia to pay attention to:
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excessive concern for its figure, calories, diets along with a sharp weight loss;
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obsessive fear of «Ghost of obesity»;
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non-recognition of feelings of hunger or even real loss;
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constant avoidance of any situations when it is necessary;
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Excessive and disproportionate physical exertion.
