What causes anorexia nervosa?

There are people who have only one thought about food causing frost on the skin. According to some estimates, every hundredth an American woman suffered in her youth or is now suffering a condition that doctors call anorexia nervosa - a deadly disease. What is this disorder? Is there any help to get rid of it?

Extremely dangerous anorexia nervosa, symptoms of the disorder

Those who suffer from anorexia - anorexics - either completely refuse food or eat so little that their body loses the necessary substances for life and slowly dies.

The problem is that the girls (although men suffer from anorexia) turn food into mania, so that they can not gain weight under any circumstances. They count each calorie, spit out food in a napkin, pretending to just wipe their lips. Their only pleasure is weighing, when they see that they have lost some weight or have not gained weight. At the same time, the weight indices are extremely inadequate.

It's amazing that many anorexic cooks are excellent cooks and they cook well. They can treat you to a great dinner, but they themselves will not touch any dish for anything. As a rule, they consider themselves as undivided owners in the kitchen.

Parents are advised to pay attention to the accuracy, which is often obsessed with those who have anorexia nervosa. They require the whole family to fulfill their unrealistic demands for cleanliness and order. Slippers, magazines and coffee cups, in their opinion, should immediately return to their place. With an even greater obsession with anorexic drugs, they monitor their personal hygiene and appearance. Long hours they spend in the bathroom, not letting the households who rush to work or school.

Why does anorexia develop?

It all begins, it would seem, with an inoffensive desire to get rid of a few pounds of weight. However, when the goal is achieved, the girl does not stop. Looking in the mirror, she continues to think that one could lose weight a little more. It seems to her that she is still a little overweight. And this cycle will continue until the weight becomes below the norm for its growth by approximately 15%.

The next stage - relatives and friends begin to express their concern with her abnormal "harmony", which already resembles exhaustion. But the patient enters the stage when she does not consider herself skinny anymore. Distortion of self-image - the more thin, the more distorted.

Time leads to irreversible changes in the patient's body. The body left without the necessary nutrients gradually begins to die. Kidneys are damaged, osteoporosis (destruction of bone tissue) occurs, hair falls out, menstruation stops, etc.

According to statistics, five women out of a hundred who are diagnosed with "anorexia nervosa" die within 10 years.

Causes of Disorder

Although it is more difficult to diagnose a nutritional disorder than other diseases, when the doctor clearly knows the reason, the course of the process, how much the illness lasts and how to treat it, there are a number of factors that affect the surge in incidence in recent years.

• Cult of thinness. Many girls think that if they are the same as the transparent mannequins, then this will be the key to their happiness. "Beautiful - means thin" - this is the motto that leads to the fact that girls are striving for an unattainably low and dangerous body weight for the health.

• Stress and grief. Outwardly, such people obey, but inside everything boils. A woman who does not have the opportunity to express her protest openly, concentrates on what is in her power - on her own body.

• Too cautious attitude towards food. Usually in the family, someone is watching their weight too much.

• The period of puberty, when there is a fear of being too full and looking older than your girlfriends.

When to go to the hospital

If the measures of psychological help have not produced results and anorexia nervosa continues to progress , treatment should be carried out in the hospital. Although the hospitalization is not pleasant, but many who went through this, they say that they went to the hospital after the amendment.