Anorexia

Pathological nutrition habituations can lead to eating disorders. The number eating disorders increase, frequently aren't diagnosed as clinical pictures although under-the extreme or overweight people. One distinguishes between four clinical pictures: One of this is the anorexia, the so-called anorexia nervosa. It one is happening very frequent, psychic caused disease particularly with young girls or women. In our society the wish becomes after slim to be still stronger. Today's ideal of beauty corresponds "be above average" between 14-25 years in the particular age. Anorexia often already appears in the puberty, mostly shortly after the first menstruation. The most important symptom of Anorexia nervosa is a strong weight loss.

The causes of the anorexia are just as versatile like of the bulimia. Psychic, genetic, biological and social factors play one by one or also together an important role. The causes often lie in the family where conflicts aren't delivered and discussed openly. Teenager frequently notifies this disease of himself at these are sheltered by their family strongly and the development of girls isn't taken into account to the woman. During this development these try to find a new identity according to patients, a lacking self-esteem they are, however, often overtaxed and have through this. To avoid the uncertainty, they try often to keep their body weight under control which leads to the strong underweight mostly.

You feel too fat also at a strong underweight, avoid very caloric foods or do almost completely without nutrition exert, take weight reducing substances, have a striking eating behavior what ends with vomiting mostly and they weigh multiply their weight minimumly anancastically exaggerated physical activity. Symptoms like circulation problems, muscle weakness, non-appearance of the menstruation or complete deficiency symptoms U appear . are . apart from weight loss. This disease leads to depressions and suicide thoughts mostly. 10% of the patients die of the results of the disease. Already according to the first symptoms their family doctor should be found. An addiction disease is anorexia nervosa, because of this the chances of recovery are impossible without a technical medical treatment mostly. Your family doctor can recommend you appropriate therapy possibilities or advice centers.


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