Bulimia Essay

Psychological research is beginning to reveal the complex interplay of innate and environmental factors which shape eating patterns. Food preferences develops from genetically determined predisposition to like sweet and salty flavor and dislike bitter and sour taste. Food neophobia has been identified as an inherent adaptive personality trait (Milton1993).It is defined as the rejection of food that are novel or unknown to child. Food neophobia aids this avoidance mechanism through the child…

GASTRIC BYPASS REVISION SURGERY Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Patients who have under-went gastric bypass surgery for some reason, seek revision of this surgery generally for two reasons. 1) Patient fails to loss the weight adequately /or weight regain 2) Post-operative medical complications (this may lead to the failure of surgery) Failure of Gastric Bypass surgery may be due to mechanical or metabolic complications. However, the eating behaviours of a patient should also be considered. In fact,…

Counselling Case Study - Alexandra This case study will explore eating disorder problem of a 46-year-old woman Alexandra who recently started to gain weight due to developing binge eating. Two different therapeutic approaches - Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Person Centered Therapy to improve her binge eating problem will be reviewed and compared. In addition, briefly will be discussed the MB EAT program aimed at enhancement of the PC Therapy. From the CBT perspective, Alexandra can be viewed…

In this article, a list composed of 10 steps to help lead someone with negative body image to a more positive thought process concerning their body. At the beginning of the article is a disclaimer that this list isn’t a fix all, but it is a place to start to begin changing the damaging thought process the reader may have at the present. Also, with the piece being on the national eating disorder website, it is more than likely directed at an individual with an eating disorder , negative body…

The Plague of Depression Introduction Most of the world is familiar with the concept of depression and most every individual will likely experience feelings of depression at some point in their lives. According to Lanier (2003), “Approximately 20 million people suffer from some form of depression during any given year in the U.S. In fact, depression has become one of the most common medical problems around the world” (p.27). Such rates are affected by and vary due to gender, soci-economic…

On the cover of a teenage girl magazine, there is a beautiful, thin model with perfect teeth and perfect hair. Usually there is a quote from the model where she expresses how she has never been as confident as she is now, and how she loves herself especially with the use of a certain product. It goes on with the model advertising an expensive product. Advertisements tend to bend the truth to make the viewer feel as if they really need their product to be successful in whatever they want to…

From reading young scholars in writing in article of “rhetoric of anorexia: eating as a metaphor for living” this article is about popular glorification of self-control, coupled with physical and emotional anxieties during transitional periods of life frequently trigger disordered eating. To an anorexic, the state of feeling fat is constant. Resisting food and losing weight become achievements in themselves, and instances of overeating become crises. In extreme cases of anorexia, any eating can…

My clinical placement was at the New Farm Clinic – Unit 2 (General Psychiatry). Initially, I had mixed emotions about my clinical placement. I felt excited, because I knew it is a great learning experience for me regarding mental health disorders. However, I also felt a little anxious thinking that the patients might be in their period of hallucinations though not to a degree that they are dangerous to me. I was unsure about how I would feel. I think I am mindful and respectful at others…

Nicole, a woman addicted to an atypical eating disorder of consuming liquid nutritional supplements through a feeding tube, validates the conception that underlying psychological events initiate addiction. Experiencing this addiction through Nicole did not entail effort, as I recently overcame anorexia nervosa; with a daily intake of 400 calories, my body mass index dropped to 13.6, as I weighed 84 pounds at 5’6”. Through a subjective connection, an insight, not apparent to viewers, performed -…

Why is media promoting sickness and death because of people´s body? Plus size models encourage obesity and an unhealthy life. They make women think being obese is okay, therefore taking away their motivation to be healthy. Teenage girls can be easily influenced by trend, now it is plus size, so they will follow that, and although being too thin is also dangerous, what the fat acceptance models promote is even worse, because of the explosion in the obesity rates. Plus size models make girls…