Bulimic neurosis, or filmorexia, is a condition that is popularly called "wolf hunger". This is an eating disorder that is characterized by the fact that a sick person is attacking a high-calorie meal, eats up a huge amount of it up to a pain in the abdomen, and then suffers from remorse and tries to induce vomiting, or takes a laxative to "purify."
Symptoms of bulimic neurosis
As a rule, bulimic neurosis comes suddenly and abruptly. In some, it is associated with negative emotions. There was an experience - there is a problem. Sometimes seizures may follow one after another, several days in a row.
The main symptoms of bulimic neurosis:
- attacks of uncontrolled appetite ;
- the ability to absorb huge amounts of food;
- inability to volitional control over the situation;
- self-hatred after the end of the attack;
- the urge to induce vomiting, take a laxative, or go hungry all day after an attack;
- emotionally unstable condition.
There are special tests that allow you to establish a person's attitude to food intake. However, usually it is enough simply to interview a patient to make a diagnosis.
Bulimic neurosis - treatment
To treat such a disease is necessary in the psychotherapist, since its cause is a mental disorder. If the patient is not found
- psychosomatic therapy;
- cognitive-behavioral therapy, during which the patient learns to establish the causes of the condition;
- drug therapy;
- monitoring of every meal - and quantity, and composition, and emotions ;
- classes with a therapist;
- self-education and behavior control;
- interpersonal therapy.
The most important thing for a patient is to be protected from stress, as they are often the cause of another attack.