Causes and Symptoms of Eating Disorders
There are millions suffering from the Eating Disorders today. It is essential to know the facts about Causes and Symptoms of Eating Disorders like Anorexia, Bulimia and Compulsive eating disorder.
There are many eating disorders however the three main eating disorders are Anorexia, Bulimia, and Compulsive eating disorder. However, it matters not whether one is overeating or not eating or binging and purging, they all have one thing in common, an obsession with food (or lack of it).
The signs and symptoms of eating disorders may vary from disorder to disorder, but there is a common denominator in the causes of eating disorders, there is a self hate within the person that prevents them from seeing the beautiful, compassionate wonderful person that their family and friends see on from the outside. They are unable to see anything except "what must be" in the mirror. The results of an eating disorder can be death.
Eating Disorders
There are three main eating disorders that will be discussed in this article.
1. Compulsive eating disorder.
2. Anorexia Nervosa.
3. Bulimia.
All three are different in many ways and alike in other ways. Eating disorders are due to a low self worth and they are also a negative method of coping with life. They are usually accompanied with depression. Eating disorders can either be a result of or co-existing with other psychological disorders such as multiple personality disorder. It is also possible for the eating disorder to be a cause of some psychological disorder(s), depression being a main result. It is also entirely possible for there to be no apparent psychological disorder, however, depression is a common effect eventually.
These negative coping skills produce a need for the person to seemingly control what they are eating. Of course with compulsive eating disorder, there is the lack of control, the person avoids feeling thinking and feeling and replaces them with the "emotional high" received by eating. Anorexia Nervosa is controlling by consuming a minimal amount of calories. Bulimia can be similar, in that sometimes minimal food is consumed; however this is not always the case, sometimes it may seem like they are a compulsive eater, however shortly after eating the food is purged in some manner (laxatives and vomiting being the most common).
The signs and symptoms of eating disorders are increased in times of high stress. For example a compulsive eater may not always eat compulsively, however, during a time of high stress the compulsive eating may appear out of nowhere to some observers. Some of the causes of eating disorders are very important as they can be sexual abuse, spouse abuse, child abuse and other symptoms of abuse or unnatural motivations that cause low self-esteem, for example a child who wants to be a model and considers herself not quite good enough or too fat.
Signs and symptoms of eating disorders
1. Compulsive eating
This is the person who eats for comfort. Most food is comfort food in this person's mind. They eat when they are not hungry, they eat when they feel good, and they eat when they feel sad, mad or upset in any way. They obsess about food and how they will get it and stress if they must go long periods (like a day or even hours) without eating. Their greatest fear is that of starvation.
These people sometimes feel that they have an addiction that is impossible to kick. It isn't like smoking or drugs or other things that one doesn't or even, shouldn't do without. Food is something that we all need to a certain extent. The problem with compulsive eaters is that once they start eating they find it almost impossible to stop! At a party or a crowd this is the easiest candidate for an eating disorder to spot. They are eating everything in site, quite possibly some things they don't like very much.
2. Anorexia Nervosa
a. Unwillingness to keep a normal body weight. (Weight that remains 15% below normal for ones height and frame). It is also characterized by, not meeting necessary weight for normal growth in children.
b. Extreme fear of getting fat or getting heavier, even though she is below normal weight.
c. Having an abnormal view of one's body or increased emphasis upon weight when evaluating ones body (Believing that the extreme low weight is not serious).
4. Loss of menses for three cycles in teens and young girls who have started menstruating.
There are two types of Anorexics, those who have binged and purged and those who have not.
3. Bulimia
There is a purging type and those who don't purge.
a. Binging-eating a large amount of food very quickly.
b. A feeling of loss of control over the situation.
c. Behavior that reoccurs over time that in some way prevents weight gain (vomiting, exercise, laxatives etc.)
d. This is not necessarily associated with Anorexia
e. Overemphasis upon body image and weight.
Other symptoms of both Bulimia and Anorexia - obsession with calories, exercise, fat in foods and flushing food down the stool, hiding extreme weight loss with larger clothes, obsession with books or internet that are about weight loss, or cooking or calories, pale, sick looking, secretive, perfectionist personality.
All of these problems are severe and need to be addressed as soon as they are recognized. There is help for people with these problems.
The signs and symptoms of eating disorders may vary from disorder to disorder, but there is a common denominator in the causes of eating disorders, there is a self hate within the person that prevents them from seeing the beautiful, compassionate wonderful person that their family and friends see on from the outside. They are unable to see anything except "what must be" in the mirror. The results of an eating disorder can be death.
Eating Disorders
There are three main eating disorders that will be discussed in this article.
1. Compulsive eating disorder.
2. Anorexia Nervosa.
3. Bulimia.
All three are different in many ways and alike in other ways. Eating disorders are due to a low self worth and they are also a negative method of coping with life. They are usually accompanied with depression. Eating disorders can either be a result of or co-existing with other psychological disorders such as multiple personality disorder. It is also possible for the eating disorder to be a cause of some psychological disorder(s), depression being a main result. It is also entirely possible for there to be no apparent psychological disorder, however, depression is a common effect eventually.
These negative coping skills produce a need for the person to seemingly control what they are eating. Of course with compulsive eating disorder, there is the lack of control, the person avoids feeling thinking and feeling and replaces them with the "emotional high" received by eating. Anorexia Nervosa is controlling by consuming a minimal amount of calories. Bulimia can be similar, in that sometimes minimal food is consumed; however this is not always the case, sometimes it may seem like they are a compulsive eater, however shortly after eating the food is purged in some manner (laxatives and vomiting being the most common).
The signs and symptoms of eating disorders are increased in times of high stress. For example a compulsive eater may not always eat compulsively, however, during a time of high stress the compulsive eating may appear out of nowhere to some observers. Some of the causes of eating disorders are very important as they can be sexual abuse, spouse abuse, child abuse and other symptoms of abuse or unnatural motivations that cause low self-esteem, for example a child who wants to be a model and considers herself not quite good enough or too fat.
Signs and symptoms of eating disorders
1. Compulsive eating
This is the person who eats for comfort. Most food is comfort food in this person's mind. They eat when they are not hungry, they eat when they feel good, and they eat when they feel sad, mad or upset in any way. They obsess about food and how they will get it and stress if they must go long periods (like a day or even hours) without eating. Their greatest fear is that of starvation.
These people sometimes feel that they have an addiction that is impossible to kick. It isn't like smoking or drugs or other things that one doesn't or even, shouldn't do without. Food is something that we all need to a certain extent. The problem with compulsive eaters is that once they start eating they find it almost impossible to stop! At a party or a crowd this is the easiest candidate for an eating disorder to spot. They are eating everything in site, quite possibly some things they don't like very much.
2. Anorexia Nervosa
a. Unwillingness to keep a normal body weight. (Weight that remains 15% below normal for ones height and frame). It is also characterized by, not meeting necessary weight for normal growth in children.
b. Extreme fear of getting fat or getting heavier, even though she is below normal weight.
c. Having an abnormal view of one's body or increased emphasis upon weight when evaluating ones body (Believing that the extreme low weight is not serious).
4. Loss of menses for three cycles in teens and young girls who have started menstruating.
There are two types of Anorexics, those who have binged and purged and those who have not.
3. Bulimia
There is a purging type and those who don't purge.
a. Binging-eating a large amount of food very quickly.
b. A feeling of loss of control over the situation.
c. Behavior that reoccurs over time that in some way prevents weight gain (vomiting, exercise, laxatives etc.)
d. This is not necessarily associated with Anorexia
e. Overemphasis upon body image and weight.
Other symptoms of both Bulimia and Anorexia - obsession with calories, exercise, fat in foods and flushing food down the stool, hiding extreme weight loss with larger clothes, obsession with books or internet that are about weight loss, or cooking or calories, pale, sick looking, secretive, perfectionist personality.
All of these problems are severe and need to be addressed as soon as they are recognized. There is help for people with these problems.
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