Anorexia and Bulimia

                 


Anorexia calorie + = torture

Clinically, anorexia nervosa is considered a disease where the patient, in most cases adolescent and young adult, shows the obsessive desire to lose weight. This behavior becomes even more worrying when the body mass index (BMI) of anorectic is below the normal level and even then, it insists on creating a fully distorted self-image, believing being overweight. From this contradictory assessment that the patient has of himself, get the highly restrictive diets, refusing to eat even hungry, accompanied by exaustantes physical activities.

The fact of believing that absolute thinness and zero action is synonymous with beauty, does not make it true. However, this is the design of patients who suffer from anorexia nervosa, and the same is enhanced with the aesthetic standards disseminated by contemporary society. According to data from The Renfrew Center Foundation (Philadelphia), the center of nutritional rehabilitation, 20% of anorexic people die prematurely from complications of the disease, such as suicide or heart problems.

Advertisements in magazines and newspapers, televised advertisements and fashion events are examples of perfection level serving to be hit by the female audience. The result of this notorious idolatry is the eating disorder and frustration because they feel they can not achieve the ideal body. This concept is explained by the psychoanalyst Katia Silene Daré:


The human being lives in a highly stimulating culture for the development of emotional disorders in a society that makes everyone believe that the price of non-compliance to current aesthetic values ​​is necessarily the anguish and unhappiness. Sometimes even when these values ​​are achieved through arrangements or cosmetic surgery, eating disorder may develop due to a physical body of nonconformity x emotional body; where depression and anxiety states are also frequent.

                                     

In contrast, the opinion of the psychiatrist Rodrigo Marot is based on recent studies that state that anorexia nervosa is not caused only by creating a prototype of beauty propagated by the media. Despite this hypothesis be considered the main cause for the behavior of repudiation to weight gain, it is very limiting, because according Marot, there are cases where anorexia was diagnosed and there are no resources for superfluous as the spread of the cult of beauty. This makes it not only an influence of the perfect body that triggers the disclosure nutritional disorder, but a set of personal events that instabilizam mental health of being, leaving him depressed and affecting, in some cases your appetite.

Often negative events of one's life trigger anorexia, such as job loss, change city, etc. We can not say that negative events causing the disease at most can only say that the rush. [...] Until recently it was believed that anorexia happened more in industrialized societies. In fact there was a lack of studies in developing societies. The first studies in this direction began to be freshly made and it was found that anorexia is present also in disadvantaged and isolated populations of advertisements slim body.

Then there is the question about the real cause of the disorder, however there is still no quick and concrete response. It takes years of research, qualified medical care and high investments for these studies. Nor is there the medical treatment which guarantees a cure for anorexia, or specific drugs that restore the correct perception of body image or desire to lose weight. Meanwhile medications have functioned only as palliatives, in the case of antidepressants that culminate in increased weight and psychotherapy individually performed as well as through the monitoring family.

Some researchers even claim that the percentage of patients considered fully recovered was almost double among those who received family-based treatment. This is because individual therapy is directed only at helping adolescents manage their food, focusing on the emotional and psychological aspects of the disease. Already the family therapy instructs parents to change their child's behavior, creating a healthy menu and sobering exercise.

                                  

Anorexia alcoholic

Apart from anorexia nervosa, has been gaining attention other species of this disease: alcoholic anorexia. The same is also known as drunkorexia, a term originated in the USA. In other words it is an eating disorder that restricts healthy eating associated with excessive alcohol intake, so that women can achieve the much desired slender body. Together the eating disorder, another factor that results alcoholic anorexia is increasing popularization concerning the consumption of alcohol among adolescents.

It is worth noting that alcoholism is associated with psychological problems like depression, anxiety, bulimia and anorexia. With that, the woman begins to eat a certain amount of alcohol to initially alleviate their difficulties. Over time, your body gets used and now requires larger quantities. Thus, excessive alcohol inhibits appetite and consequent consumption of nutrients, leading to alcoholic anorexia. Treatment of this disease should also be conducted with the support and monitoring of the family in order to develop self-confidence of youth and strengthen their personality.


Playing at being Barbie

It is common knowledge that childhood morbid obesity is affecting the health of children with diseases so far related only to adults as hypertension and diabetes. But what is still not fully known is the fact that anorexia nervosa be early reaching children and preteens.


However, contrary to what occurs in teenagers, child anorexia is not only related to aesthetic values, although children are bombarded with perfect body images presenting children's programs, singers and even the cartoon illustrations. But connected to this is the family factor because parental care in relation to the health of children who are a little "cheinhos" can become exaggerated and neurotic. Restrict the power of the child creates in her a fear of food because there is not yet the capacity of understanding on calories. In addition, the children anorexia nervosa causes serious health risks to the patient, such as the prevention of genetically determined height, thinning bones, decreased blood pressure and rhythm of heartbeats.

There needs to be agreement between the parents about feeding children and respect each stage of growth, because although absurd, many parents take their pre-teenage daughters to the endocrinologist for them "accumulate" too much fat.

Group "pro-ana"

In virtual spaces, has been spreading ideas in favor of anorexia, defending it as "lifestyle" a standard to be adopted by all. The anorexic dolls, as they are better known, are actually adolescents with BMI within normal levels, however assiduously want to lose weight so they can reach their happiness. One of them, who used the alias D.M. presents the partial syndrome, ie does not display all the symptoms of an anorexic, but is days without eating, laxatives, or practice exaustantes exercise.

These girls treat the disease as collateral for the perfect body, including the call "Ana" and create communities on social networking sites satisfaction texts, music and pictures to encourage long periods of abstinence food.



                                         

Anorexia is my life, my best friend, or even my lover. It infallibly that whenever I need, she's here to help me. The fact that it may be slowly killing me, in a way is good for short-term benefits it brings. [...] The media creates a perfect image of woman and when we decided to lose weight in order to comply with the standard of beauty they want to punish us, saying that we are sick. Patients are they.

It should be emphasized that it is useless to criticize these teens because their behavior is a consequence of the imposition of the aesthetic model to be adopted by women. The world culture values ​​the slender body, while teenagers in favor of anorexia stigmatize the skeletal body and point fat as an "evolutionary failure" and synonymous with misery.

No one accepts the idea of ​​a person spend days without eating for a perfect picture, the label of manic patients. In fact we are just following our lives in search of the values ​​in which we believe. Values ​​that the people themselves have passed: we learn early on in this society that being obese is to be disgusting.

However it is clear that publications in favor of anorexia become common, there must be a mental and nutritional treatment, to restore the mental balance of "pro-ana", and seek the support of family, friends and people They have recovered.

Eat or drink: that is the question?

Bulimia is the practice of inducing vomiting or using laxatives abusively after a meal, as a way to avoid heat gain. Like anorexia, bulimia is also considered an eating disorder that affects a large number of teenagers who wish to achieve the perfect body and consequently happiness.
The clinical picture of a bulimic is more difficult to diagnose because the patients generally have normal weight or wear loose clothing to disguise the thinness. However, for psychological problems such as anxiety and depression, patients with bulimia eat excessively and so there is no caloric gain, eliminate unnaturally.
As well as the group "pro-ana", has also been reported the group "pro-mia", which also aims to advise and encourage teenagers who want to lose weight by bulimia. Similarly, it is necessary to begin psychiatric treatment within the family environment, as the outstanding feature in all these disorders is the alienation of teenagers as their actual physical needs and easy influence of the media.


Final considerations

The ideal trial for beauty today is the slender body, and the teens are constantly sacrificing their physical and mental health to achieve the standard that is constantly imposed by the media. In the past it has rounded curves was similar to the beautiful, but with advances in medicine, it was found that excess fat tissue triggered several diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Over time the media began to publicize the benefits of a lean body, and unfortunately have influenced negatively the young. However you can not just blame the spread of stick-thin models and celebrities images, because society has become empty only to worship appearance.

Differently than previously thought, cases of eating disorders have afflicted more and more children and preteens or by family pressure or the constant images of beautiful bodies of women who are part of the child means, as singers and presenters. Attention must be paid because the child has not developed completely and need all the nutrients so they can grow healthily.

Unfortunately, there is no cure or medicine to cease eating disorders, but the family support is very important because it helps the nutritional and psychological level. For then there is complete recovery of anorexia or bulimia, psychiatric is necessary nutritional and treatment, as well as personal examination of each patient.