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• Anorexia stems largely from the perception of the sufferer that they will not be happy until they lose the weight. It is a condition where individuals feel that their worth is measure by how they look. o This means that overcoming anorexia comes from understanding that weight loss is not the key to success, confidence and happiness o It is about individuals discovering who they are beyond their body image, eating habits and weight.
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• Exact treatments may vary from patient to patient o Generally the treatment process will follow this structure
1. Ask for help from loved ones or professional
2. Find a specialist
3. Address health problems o Some individuals may be chronically malnourished and below 15% of their normal body weight and hence may require hospitalization
4. Long term treatment plan o Long term treatment plans are necessary as eating disorders are not just about symptoms and destructive eating habits o At the heart of the disorder is emotional problems and a struggle to cope with stress, anxiety, fear, sadness and other uncomfortable emotions.
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• There are a number of different treatment option including o Cognitive behavioural therapy o Family therapy o Group therapy o Medication o Residential treatment facilities o Self help
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• But no matter what treatment option is chosen, it is also important that: o A good support system is established during treatment and maintained following treatment. o Education about nutrition and healthy weight management is conducted to ensure that individuals adapt healthy eating procedures following treatment o These measures are important as individuals can easily relapse or fall into bad habits again.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Most common treatment procedure for anorexia
• It has a high success rate as it targets the unhealthy eating behaviours and the negative thoughts and triggers at the root of them. o By understanding the triggers for unhealthy eating they can help patients cope with these triggers in different manners. o They also help patients understand how food is being used to overcome emotions
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• Cognitive behavioural therapy may uncover that o negative self image is created by specific traumatic events or memories within individual’s developmental stages of childhood
During these childhood stages and during treatment parents may inadvertently play a role in fostering the negative self image of the individual.
Cognitive behavioural therapy can be important here as they can uncover familial pressures to be thin, can educate the family and help the family ensure the patient’s compliance with the treatment measures
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• In summary cognitive behavioural therapy helps individuals become aware of emotional problems and how to combat them. o They help make changes through specific behavioural interventions like promoting healthy eating by goal setting and rewards.
The National Institute of Mental Health: Eating Disorders: Facts About Eating Disorders and the Search for Solutions. Pub No. 01-4901. Accessed Feb. 2002.
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Each year millions of people in the United States develop serious and often fatal eating disorders. More than ninety percent of those are adolescent and young women. The consequences of eating disorders are often severe--one in ten end in death from either starvation, cardiac arrest, or suicide. Due to the recent awareness of this topic, much time and money has been attributed to eating disorders. Many measures have been taken to discover leading causes and eventual treatment for those suffering from anorexia. (http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource ...er.html#Causes of Eating Disorders) )
Anorexia is a condition that goes beyond out-of-control dieting. This psychological disorder initially begins with dieting to lose weight. The excessive drive to lose weight becomes secondary to the concerns about control and fear of one’s own body. An adolescent continues an endless cycle of controlled eating which is then often accompanied by other psychological and emotional behaviors. In an FDA consumer special report, Dixie Farley states, “the anorectic becomes obsessed with a fear of fat and losing weight[…] she sees normal folds of flesh as fat that must be eliminated[…] Anorectics are described as having low self-esteem and feeling that others are controlling their lives. Some may be overactive and her obsession increasingly controls her life. It’s an addiction.” A teenage girl with anorexia often restricts her dieting, sometimes to a point of starvation in order to feel control over her body. As she keeps dieting, a domino of emotional and psychological stress begins to affect her body and the endless cycle of restrictive eating and over exercising begins to lead to depression. In the end, this depression ultimately leads to a cycle that becomes an obsession and an addiction.
Anorexia nervosa is a disease that revolves around the thought of “Never being skinny enough.” Once someone starts to live an anorexic lifestyle nothing else in his or her life matters anymore. Family, friends and other activities are pushed aside because all that matters in the life of someone with anorexia is losing weight (Anorexia Nervosa). However, anorexia isn’t just about eating unhealthy. Anorexia is about malnutrition, excessive weight loss and starvation of the body. Anorexia isn’t a very popular disease. Anorexia appears in less than one percent of girls (Rosen, Meghan).
Today, as many as 10 out of 100 young teens struggle with an eating disorder. Each year, many teens develop eating disorders, or problems related to their weight, body image, and food. Anorexia is a serious eating disorder associated with an intense fear of weight gain and food. People who suffer from anorexia limit the amount of food they eat and have a distorted view of their body size and shape and may become dangerously thin. That is because the disorder affects not only their body but also their mind. Although the cause of anorexia is not fully understood, there is evidence that physical, biological, and social triggers are part of problems in anorexia. All of these causes revolve around the society we are living in today.
Have you ever felt fat or self-conscious about the way you looked? These are questions that we may ask ourselves everyday, but anorexics ask themselves these questions every minute of everyday. Questions like this haunt an anorexic’s conscience and ruin the way she/he perceives herself/himself. Anorexia is a very dangerous mental illness because it has many life- threatening effects.
Many people are insecure about their bodies and take desperate measures to get that model like body. People that are fit or well underweight constantly see themselves as fat. They repeatedly weigh themselves, obsessively exercise, portion their food, and eat very small amounts of food in order to lose a few pounds; this is called anorexia (Eating Disorders). Anorexia can be a very critical health problem in the long run because you are starving yourself without realizing it and it can also cause several other issues throughout your body. Some might say that those who are anorexic have skeletal-like bodies; nearly every bone in their body is visible with only a thin layer of skin protecting them. This is very damaging, but anorexia is just one of many eating disorders.
Anorexia Nervosa or just Anorexia, is characterized by an extreme and intense fear of gaining weight, which leads the person to pursue continuous weight loss. Sometimes, a diet can begin innocently, but anorexics don't stop at a rational point. They keep going until their lives may be threatened. Anorexics may use many methods of weight loss along with dieting and fasting. They use excessive exercise, diet pills, laxatives, diuretics, or vomiting as ways of feeling thinner or controlling calories, but whatever the method, the primary goal is thinness. One may wonder why anorexics don't stop dieting once they become skinny. The reason is that a major characteristic of anorexia is a problem called distorted body image. This means that anorexics look at their bodies very differently than other people do. When they look in the mirror, they never see themselves as being too thin. They "feel fat" And usually overestimate their weight. If an anorexic is told she is too skinny, she is more likely to be happy than upset. Many times, anorexics don't believe that they have a problem. Using weight reduction is just a way of coping with other pressures.
Though there are a few treatments for eating disorders they don’t always work. The treatments mostly include psychotherapies and cognitive behavioral therapy, also counseling and nutritional rehabilitation. These individuals must undergo many counseling sessions to try to indicate the essential reason that the individual adapted the eating disorder in the first place, it is difficult to change someone’s opinion of themselves so often times even have counseling very few amounts of these individuals actually change their eating habits and behaviors. The purposes for having treatment include helping the patient reach a specific weight that is healthy for their age and height and also to address all of the individual’s psychological problems associated with the disorder.
Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a fear of being overweight which results in becoming exceedingly thin. (guide) People with anorexia go to an extreme in abusing the way they diet, over exercise, and purge. When looking for symptoms in anorexia it is slightly hard to tell, for many times people keep their disorder a secret. Once someone starts undergoing this process, people sometimes gain weight rather than lose, which also initiates them to lose more weight. During the period of growth and maturation, anorexia leads to somatic and psychological development and which leads to serious health issues. (journal research) Although many don’t see what is happening, over time they are sev...
According to research done by Gokmen Arslan (2016), childhood “psychological maltreatment” may directly indicate depression, or low self-esteem in adulthood. Childhood abuse and general trauma are two major risk factors of depression in adolescent and adult years (Wingo et al. 2010). While the term “depression” often is used in a colloquial manner, it is not a disease to be dealt with casually. According to Wingo et al., sixteen percent of the population is affected by major depression alone. Additionally, it is one of the top ten causes for disability and untimely death in the United States. This number does not include dysthymia and other mental health issues which brings the percentage up to almost 19% (Reserved, 2016). Roy, Carli, & Sarchiapone (2011) even address studies that show a correlation between childhood trauma and suicide attempts in patients with psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, there is a strong correlation between experiencing childhood trauma and substance abuse, which can lead to additional social, emotional, and developmental problems (Calmes, 2012). These psychological challenges are not necessarily caused by childhood trauma; however, they are a result of the “dysfunctional” and “addictive” behaviors that many survivors engage in (Putnam, 2006). Childhood trauma can cause a disrupt in personality development which will in term harm the way that the child develops emotionally, physically, behaviorally, cognitively, morally, and relationally. Therefore, the child may have to work very hard to live a life free of negative consequences from his or her
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Anorexia is a deadly disease if you don’t catch it early. Physically and psychologically anorexia will destroy your body and your mind. You get so consumed on limiting your calorie intake and ignoring your health by depriving your body from nutrients and malnutrition. Mentally by starving yourself you think you are in control but the disease ends up controlling you. Anorexia starts at a young age affecting teen but it can also affect adult hood. Anorexia does not only affect females but also affects males.
In order to create a behavior modification plan that will be successful for the individual, identifying cues, responses and consequences of eating behaviors is necessary. Control of eating behavior, physical activity, emotional, social, and psychological health must all be analyzed and interventions applied. Behaviors related to problems with intake and expenditure of energy must be specifically defined. Recording and analyzing eating and exercise behaviors to develop strategies aimed at learning new behaviors are essential.