Coming to Grips With Eating Disorders

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Coming to Grips With Eating Disorders

Date Added: June 27, 2010 07:51:04 AM

An eating disorder is an illness which penetrates into all aspects of each sufferer's life, is caused by various emotional factors and influences. In this article we will touch upon Anorexia and Bulimia. The eating disorder, Anorexia, is a unique response to various external and internal conflicts, such as tension, anxiety, unhappiness and feeling as if life is uncontrolled. An Anorexic may be extremely sensitive about being overweight, or have a massive fear of becoming fat - though not all people with Anorexia have this fear. They may be afraid of losing control of the quantity of food they eat, coupled with the desire to control their emotions and responses to their emotions. This makes them turn to obsessive body weight control and starvation as a way to control not only their weight, but what they feel and how they act. Some also believe that they do not deserve pleasure out of life, and will avoid situations offering pleasure, including eating. Some of the behavioral signs can be: calorie gram counting, starvation and limitation of food, obsessive physical exercise, self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, diuretics or laxatives to to control body weight, and a constant concern about the body image. Bulimia sufferers seek episodes of binging and purging - they cannot stop themselves from eating too much and then vomit in order to control their weight - as they feel overwhelmed in dealing with their emotions, or in order to punish themselves. Bulimia sufferers may seek episodes of binging and purging to avoid and let out feelings of tension, anger, anxiety or depression. Repeated episodes of binging followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of losing control over eating behaviors, regularly engaging in stringent dieting and exercise, the misuse of laxatives or diuretics, and/or weight loss solutions and a constant concern over the way they look can all be warnings someone is having Bulimia. The two illnesses have many similarities, the commonest being the trigger. They are complex emotional problems. Though they may seem to be nothing more than a health-threatening obsessive weight concern on the surface, for most sufferers there are deeper emotional conflicts to be resolved.

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