Anorexia Nervosa

Everyone wants to be thinner and this is where the problem starts. Weight loss is focused on being thinner rather than being based on a healthy living. The consequent disease which has taken many women by storm is anorexia. No matter how thin they get, an anorexic person will always see someone fat in their mirror image. It is disease of central nervous system and can be seen as a slow killer.

Anorexia nervosa has three distinctive features. One is unable to see the actual shape of the body and is self critical about body shape.  An anorexic is unable to accept the normal weight standards and insists that they must lose more. They seriously fear that they might gain weight with any extra calorie.

The anorexic patients need to be told that there is a distinct difference between dieting and having anorexia. An anorexic person would be more focused on being thin than being healthy. A person doing dieting is full of self esteem and aims at attaining set weight target.

Too much dieting and skipping meals despite being slim due to fear of gaining weight is the prime sign of anorexia patients. They constantly think about what they eat and what is it going to do to their body. So the eat very less.

They have strange ways of eating foods. They may chew some and spit out the rest and give unjustified reasoning for doing so. They often lie about if they have had their meal. Such people often show sudden body changes like weight loss and inch loss.  They are too critical about their appearance and often need to be told that they are looking thinner.

Anorexia may not be just a life-style inherited trouble. It may be genetic too.  Anorexia may develop due to social pressures. They include being in a profession which demands it or pressure form the family members.