Life-Threatening Eating Disorders - Anorexia and Bulimia
| Date Added: June 21, 2010 06:46:43 PM |
| Author: vagleria54 |
| Category: Health: Weight Issues |
| An eating disorder is an illness that adversely affects all aspects of each sufferer's life, is caused by various emotional factors and impacts, and has profound effects on sufferers and their loved ones. In this article we will take a closer look at Anorexia and Bulimia. Those who are having these eating disorders are characterized as having a low self-esteem and often a desperate need to have stringent control over their emotions and surroundings. Anorexia is a unique reaction to various outer and inner conflicts, such as stress, concern, unhappiness and feeling as if life is uncontrolled. An Anorexia sufferer may be exceedingly sensitive about being perceived as fat, or have a strong fear of becoming overweight - though not all Anorexia sufferers have this fear. They may fear to lose control of the amount of food they eat, accompanied by the desire to gain strict control of their emotions and reactions to these emotions. This forces them to turn to obsessive dieting and starvation as a way to control not only their weight, but their feelings and actions. Some also feel that they do not deserve pleasures of life, and will stay away from situations connected to pleasure (including eating). Typical behavioral signs include: obsessive physical exercise, calorie and fat gram counting, starvation and restriction of food, self-induced vomiting, the use of weight loss medications, laxatives or diuretics to attempt controlling weight, and a persistent concern over the way they look. Bulimia sufferers seek binge and purge episodes - they will consume a large quantity of food in a comparatively short period of time and then use behaviors such as pickings laxatives or diuretics or self-induced vomiting - since they feel overwhelmed in managing their emotions, or in order to punish themselves. Bulimia sufferers may seek episodes of binging and purging to avoid and let out feelings of strain, anger, concern or depression. Recurring episodes of overeating followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of lacking control over food consumption, engaging in strict diet plans and exercise on a regular basis, the misuse of diuretics or laxatives, and/or diet pills and a constant concern over the body image can all be warning signs of Bulimia. The two illnesses have a lot of similarities, the most common being the cause. They are complex emotional issues. Though they may seem to be nothing more than a dangerously obsessive weight concern on the surface, for most sufferers there are deeper emotional conflicts to be resolved. |
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