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Anorexia and Bulimia are Profound Emotional Problems
Date Added: June 25, 2010 06:07:33 AM
Author: vagleria54
Category: Blogs: Personal

An eating disorder is an illness that affects all facets of each sufferer's life, is triggered by various emotional factors and influences. In this article we will touch upon Anorexia and Bulimia. Those who are having these illnesses are characterized as having a low self-esteem and frequently a desperate need to take strict control over their surroundings and emotions. Anorexia is a unique response to various outer and inner conflicts, such as tension, concern, unhappiness and feeling as if life is uncontrolled. Anorexia is a negative way to manage these emotions. An Anorexia sufferer may be extremely sensitive about being perceived as fat, or have a massive fear of becoming fat - although not all Anorexia sufferers have this fear. They may be afraid of losing control over the amount of food they eat, accompanied by the craving to take strict control over their emotions and responses to their emotions. This forces them to turn to obsessive dieting and starvation as a means to control not only their weight, but their feelings and actions. Some also believe that they do not deserve the simple pleasures of life, and will deprive themselves of situations connected to pleasure (including eating). Typical behavioral signs may include: calorie and fat gram counting, starvation and restriction of food, obsessive physical exercise, self-induced vomiting, the use of weight loss medications, diuretics or laxatives to attempt controlling body weight, and a persistent concern about the body image. Bulimia sufferers seek episodes of binging and purging - they will consume too much in a relatively short period of time and then use behaviors such as fetching diuretics or laxatives or self-induced vomiting - because they feel overwhelmed in coping with their emotions, or in order to punish themselves. Those suffering from Bulimia may seek episodes of binging and purging to avoid and let out feelings of tension, anger, concern or depression. Repeated episodes of speedy food consumption followed by tremendous guilt and purging (laxatives or self-induced vomiting), a feeling of losing control over food consumption, engaging in strict dieting and exercise on a regular basis, the misuse of laxatives or diuretics, and/or weight loss solutions and a constant concern about the way they look can all be warning signs somebody is having Bulimia. The two illnesses have a lot of similarities, the most common being the trigger. They are very complicated emotional issues. Although they may seem to be nothing more than a health-threatening obsessive body weight concern on the surface, for most people having an eating disorder there are deeper emotional conflicts to be resolved.
 
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