Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder and a healthy psychological state can be fatal.

People living with anorexia is trying to maintain the lowest possible level of weight, usually by determining the amount of food they eat. Often have a distorted image of themselves, believe that they are overweight they are they are not.

Some people who suffer from this condition also exercise, excessive exercise, and some people eat a lot of food in a short period of time (greed) and then make themselves vomiting or using laxatives (softening of the abdomen).

People with often anorexics trying hard to hide their behavior from family and friends by lying about eating what may have eaten, or by pretending that they had eaten earlier.

As in other eating disorders can be associated with loss of appetite, depression, low self-esteem, alcohol use and self-harm.

Treatment of anorexia

If you have an eating disorder such as anorexia, the first step is to recognize the existence of a problem and visit your doctor for a medical examination and advice on treatment.

One of the biggest challenges in treating anorexia is to make people with this condition are receptive to the idea that their behavior is normal.

The first step towards improvement is to identify the problem and demonstrate a genuine desire to improve.

Usually helps a range of psychological treatments and advice on food and nutrition in the treatment of anorexia. And are dealing with the most serious cases in the hospital or clinic specialized eating disorders.

Complications of anorexia

Can result in not eating enough food to a wide range of complications, some of which can be fatal, such as:

• severe renal insufficiency

• liver damage

• Heart Failure

Overview

When a person asks for help, treatment usually takes 5-6 years to fully recover, and is one of the common occurrence of relapses. It will continue to be about half of the people infected with anorexia exposure to problems related to eating healthy in spite of treatment.

Despite being a healthy condition is uncommon, however, loss of appetite is one of the main causes of mortality associated with mental health. And that could be due to the effects of malnutrition or as a result of 

suicide.