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Anorexia and Bulimia are Profound Emotional Problems |
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| Date Added: July 04, 2010 06:38:25 PM | |
| Author: vagleria54 | |
| Category: Kids and Teens: Health | |
An eating disorder is an illness which permeates all facets of each sufferer's life, is triggered by various emotional factors and influences. In this article we will touch upon Anorexia and Bulimia. Eating disorder sufferers have a low self-esteem and often an intense need to maintain stringent control over their emotions and surroundings. Anorexia is a unique reaction to various outer and inner conflicts, such as tension, concern, unhappiness and feeling as if life is uncontrolled. Anorexia is a negative way to deal with these emotions. An Anorexia sufferer may be exceedingly sensitive about being fat, or have a massive fear of becoming fat - although not all Anorexics experience this fear. They may fear to lose control of the quantity of food they consume, accompanied by the desire to take stringent control over their emotions and reactions to their emotions. This makes them turn to obsessive body weight control and starvation as a way to control not only their weight, but what they feel and how they react. Some also think that they do not merit the simple pleasures of life, and will stay away from situations offering pleasure (including eating). Typical behavioral signs include: calorie gram counting, starvation and limitation of food, obsessive exercise, self-induced vomiting, the use of weight loss solutions, laxatives or diuretics to to control weight, and a constant concern about the way they look. Bulimia sufferers seek episodes of binging and purging - they will eat too much in a relatively short period and then use behaviors such as pickings laxatives or diuretics or self-induced vomiting - because they feel overwhelmed in handling their emotions, or in order to punish themselves. Those having Bulimia may seek binge and purge episodes to avoid and let out feelings of strain, anger, concern or depression. Repeated episodes of binging followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of lacking control over food consumption, regularly engaging in stringent dieting and exercise, the misuse of laxatives or diuretics, and/or diet pills and a constant concern over the way they look can all be warning signs someone is having Bulimia. The two eating disorders have many similarities, the most common being the cause. They are very complicated emotional problems. 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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