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SYMPTOMS physical starvation
* Cool skin, sometimes with a bluish tint.
* Pain when sitting.
- Development of fine hair all over his body.
- Hypotension, or abnormally low pressure.
- Heart weakened.
- Indigestion after little food he consumes.
- Feeling weak or tired.
- Problems with sleep.
- Anemia due to lack of iron and protein.
- Hormonal abnormalities, absence of menstrual periods.Psychological characteristics of anorexia nervosa
- BODY IMAGE: Most anorexics perceive a distorted body image because they are too fat, ignoring what it is they look emaciated.
One of his main fears is to become fat and the decision to maintain a fairly low body weight at any cost.
- A watershed event: this refers to the immediate young adulthood and independence that society expects her to succeed. As becomes thinner and weaker, the anorexic needs more attention of those around her, and no longer has to worry about going out alone because it would entail greater control over their own lives.
- Satisfy several conflicting needs: the release of the stress of entering adulthood and achieve independence, while attracting the attention of parents and provides a measure of control over their own existence.
Through these psychological characteristics can be observed two types of anorexia:
- Austere anorexics: they start losing weight through diet and exercise, usually helps with laxatives, diet pills and / or diuretics.
- Anorexic voracious: they show features of bulimia nervosa, ie passing through bingeing and vomiting.
Other features are those with these girls:
- A history of slight overweight: these girls start taking a little overweight so start with strict diets and then do not stop when they reach the weight they wanted, they like, and continue to lose weight.
- An excessive desire to please others and avoid stressful situations: try to please others at the expense of their own happiness and thus develop a rigid personality, expressed in an excessive need to follow rules and a tendency to criticize others. They try to maintain control over their environment because they have no control over their own lives.
This also leads to fear having to face new situations and problems arise and they identity and control.
- Choosing a hobby or a career that places great importance on weight: the careers of dancer, actress, model and athlete, encourage this disease because it is given a high value on having a slim and healthy.
There are a number of factors are also crucial in anorexia:
- Family factors: many of the affected families are from loving and caring but there are a number of factors that will lead to anorexia. It is well established that families of anorexics are located in the middle and upper socioeconomic strata of society. This fact implies behaviors, values and personal relationships other than the person belonging to other strata as well be a tendency for parents of anorexics have advanced ages.
Granting of a great emotional importance to food, eating, weight and appearance: this case can occur when parents are involved in some kind of close relationship with food restaurants, working in the food industry …
Cases of anorexia nervosa in the family and anemic disorders in close relatives: Most cases usually occur because a family has already suffered from anorexia or any emotional disorder like depression or manic depression.
Exaggerated emphasis on the appearance and achievements by one or both parents are often subjected to diet to please a parent what the cover leads to negative feelings like anger.
An excessively close relationship with parents, excessive control: parents take too much control over them coming to make their own decisions and govern their own lives because they have high expectations placed on them. They try to completely satisfy the wants, needs and expectations, and in doing so fail to express their own wishes to produce a lack of recognition of herself as an individual in its own right.
Other family problems: many disorders that may have within it such as alcoholism which leads the child to focus on it and neglect their problems.
All these problems are intertwined. Disorders come to spend a lifetime in a particular social and family environment. Members of a family almost never realize the impact of their conduct in the future patient.
This is a useful article – and does get across how far-reaching the effects of one person in a family having anorexia can be – however it is also important to remember that a having a genetic predisposition to anorexia is only a very small part of the picture.