Anorexia nervosa

The modern cinema and fashion industry is imposing its own tastes on the female figure. You see, unnaturally thin girls look great on the screen, and they are comfortable to sew on - no extra darts are needed, feminine curves are missing. It's all clear, it's unclear just why a huge number of girls are trying to get closer to such unhealthy standards. And they are really, unhealthy, some fashion designers have already realized this and began to abandon the services of too thin models. But this measure was late, the anorexia nervosa swept the world, and many girls try to lose weight, considering everything superfluous, except for the skeleton covered with skin.

Symptoms of anorexia nervosa

This sort of nervous breakdown does not let you know about yourself right away, it usually starts with discontent with your own figure and looking for far-fetched flaws. This period can last from 2 to 4 years. After the initial stage or does not receive further development, or passes into the next stage of anorexia nervosa, which is characterized by the following symptoms.

1. A constant desire to reduce weight. If, at achievement of the objects in view, a sense of satisfaction is not achieved or there is a fear of gaining weight again, then the person continues to starve, setting a new goal for himself.
2. Excessive physical activity. To achieve their goal, people load themselves with physical training, work that requires physical activity, violations and workaholism develop. At the same time, a person feels discontent with himself if he can not perform the prescribed training program.
3. Ignoring the physical signs of the disease. People suffering from anorexia nervosa, hide the feeling of hunger, fatigue, weakness and chills.
4. Inability to admit their problems. Even when a person leads himself to exhaustion, he does not want to admit his illness. Because of self-doubt and various fears, treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa is very difficult.
5. The desire to lose weight, the fear of gaining weight while the body weight is within the norm or much lower than it.
6. Weight is 70% of the norm corresponding to the age and height of the person.
7. Decreased efficiency of mental activity, loss of flexibility of thinking.
8. Ritual attitude to food - cutting food into small pieces, unfolding on small plates.
9. The feeling of discomfort from the process of eating, and even the release of the stomach after eating by inducing vomiting.
10. Syndrome of anorexia nervosa leads to a significant deterioration in the physical condition. In women, amenorrhea, decreased libido, the inability to conceive. There are memory and sleep disorders, arrhythmia, cardiovascular failure, skin, hair and nails deterioration.

There are cases of atypical anorexia nervosa. This term is used in the absence of one or more key signs of the disease (severe weight loss or amenorrhea), but in general the picture is quite typical.

How to treat anorexia nervosa?

Most girls suffering from this disease can not realize that they have a lack of weight. Even thin people weighing less than 40 kg can consider themselves fat. It is almost impossible to change their minds because, due to lack of nutrition, the brain loses its ability to rational thinking. Therefore, the treatment of anorexia nervosa - it is not an easy task and it is possible to cope with it alone at the initial stage, and that is not always the case. All other cases require specialist intervention. Treatment is usually done on an outpatient basis, but in severe cases the patient is left in the hospital with increased caloric intake, and with a categorical refusal of food, the food is administered intravenously.

Anorexia is a neuropsychic disease, and therefore, during its treatment, the competent work of a psychologist is required, the task of which will be the destruction of stereotypes of thinking and behavior peculiar to this disorder.