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Importance of self-esteem in anorexia
Low self-esteem is a common feature of different eating disorders as it reflects the patient’s fear that if they “abandon” and shows the world as it is in fact will be rejected immediately.
One of the goals of good therapy eating disorder is getting the patient to appreciate its own intrinsic worth.
Reasons [...]
Treatment Process of Anorexia (part 2)
Treatment Options: After the evaluation, will receive the recommendations for the patient to start treatment.
There is no standardized method for treating eating disorders “is the best treatment that gives results.”
The important thing is that the program is comprehensive, combining psychotherapy and nutrition therapy counseling and assistance, if necessary, specialized medical care
1. Individual psychotherapy: perhaps the [...]
Treatment Process of Anorexia (part 1)
EVALUATION: Before anyone start treatment as an inpatient or outpatient, must be evaluated:
- Your general physical and mental state.
- The severity of the condition.
- The possible existence of concurrent disorders.
- Their willingness to change.
For the therapy result, doctors and therapists need more information about the person trying to help.
An eating disorder involves all facets of [...]
Treatment for Anorexia
The intervention: it is often used by those who want to the person concerned and worried about their behavior, is an eating disorder, drug or alcohol abuse or other kinds of self-destructive behaviors. Surgery can be an effective means of communicating their concerns, establish some rules and maybe the person concerned, decide to seek help.
To [...]
Physical Benefits and Risk of Exercise for Anorexia
Physical activity and regularly practiced moderation is highly recommended from a medical standpoint because it can help improve many diseases. Several studies among adolescents agree that from the standpoint of psycho-physical activity helps control emotional states like depression, stress, anxiety …
According to Martinsen is a close relationship between physical exercise and depression because the more [...]
ANOREXIA NERVOSA IN MALES
Anorexia is more common in women than in men but this is not to say there are not men who suffer, but there are few (no fewer than 100 cases described in medical literature before 1986).
Because there are few men who have it, has come to view women differently from anorexia. Comparisons have been made [...]
Anorexia (part 2)
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 [...]
Anorexia (part 1)
INTRODUCTION
The first case of anorexia was in Catherine of Siena. With 26 years his idea of devoting his life to God clashed with their parents’ plans to marry her.
This situation led her to lock herself in her room getting ill-treated by not eating at the end enter the Dominican order, but with half its weight.
The [...]