Anorexia Nervosa And Eating Disorders Analysis

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder. It creates a non-healthy obsession in people about what they eat. They may obsess negatively about their weight and might starve or stop eating altogether. Studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand has seen an increased surge in the number of anorexia nervosa patients identified in the youth community. It was seen that almost half of adolescent girls are seen to have practices extreme dieting. They have done induced vomiting and also smoke so as to keep their weight down (NEDC, 2014). In surveys conducted by NEDC it was able to establish that more than 75 percentage of girls thought that they were fat or that they needed to reduce weight. In addition the girls opined that they either diet moderately …show more content…
This is a condition that is often difficult to overcome because Anorexia nervosa can be difficult to overcome. Some of the physical strains that are imposed on the body because of Anorexia are that there will primarily be weight loss. The person will have really low blood counts and would be fatigued easily. The person is also at risk for insomnias, might have bluish discoloration of their fingers because of lesser oxygen, or might have soft downy hair covering their body. In women in particular there is loss of menstruation and there are irregular heartbeats, dehydration, osteoporosis and more noted (MayoClinic, 2014). In addition to this there are also emotional and behavioral symptoms associated with Anorexia. The person would refuse to eat and would deny hunger in order to stay a certain weight. They may lie about their food consumptions, might be constantly depressed and will also abuse laxatives and more. This would fast reach a point where the anorexia nervosa person might be constantly exhausted, or might be miserable, sad, anxious …show more content…
Individual personality traits, group behavior, addictive behavior and more are identified as potential risk grounds. People with eating disorders tend to be obsessed with perfectionism; they would be obsessive compulsive or would be highly neurotic. In addition these people could also have a very low emotional threshold, high negative emotions, might have low self esteem or might have an avoidant personality disorder. In addition to these psychological factors, it can be seen that starvation and other conditions of anorexia nervosa might lead to more traits, creating a cyclical negative cycle. Prolonged starvation might lead to more moodiness or depression, more behavioral deviances and changes. Both Physiological and Psychological changes therefore feed off one