Anorexia, Bulimia And Compulsive Overeating
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Anorexia, Bulimia And Compulsive Overeating
Christopher Knight
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Eating disorders are recognized as a sort of obsession. In anorexia the subject has a twisted view of their body image and as a consequence proscribes their intake of food due to an acute wish to be thin.
Weightloss frequently helps the victim to feel in control when they understand the rest in their life to be out of their control. Anorexics are hooked on the “buzz” that come from weight reduction and starving also creates a dizzy high which is also addictive. A victim of Anorexia is identifiable by being underweight or highly underweight.
Bulimics like anorexics also have a twisted view of their body image. It’s not uncommon for sufferers of Bulimia to have started as anorexic. Most Bulimics are frequently dependent on certain food types, when they take one bite of their “trigger food” the bulimic develops a physical craving that leads to bingeing on huge amounts of food.
Then follows a period of remorse and shame and the bulimic tries to rid their body of the food by puking, purgative abuse and / or over exercising.
It can be tricky to identify bulimia in an individual as they can regularly maintain a standard body weight. compulsive overeaters are frequently large or fat. As with the bulimic subject the compulsive overeater can be dependent on particular food types which make a physical hungering for more food. The surplus weight then builds and acts as a “protective barrier” between the subject and the world outside. With all eating defects, sufferers use food and compulsive behaviours around food to medicate the discomfort of underlying issues. Like an alcoholic, an eating disorder subject will lie to buddies and family to try to hide their illness. It’s not rare for someone to swing from one type of eating disorder to another.
Recovery from eating abnormalities starts with creating a food plan especially for the individual. Eating patterns have frequently been chaotic for a substantial period of time, thus building a structure around food is crucial. We also help the particular person to identify private “trigger foods” ( those which set up a physical craving ) and make a catalogue of foods that they have to refrain from eating.
When the individual is refraining from the food and behaviours to which they were hooked, feelings that were being suppressed start to appear. Through the employment of group work, counsellors will help to explore and manage the feelings and teach them tools to use so a return to addictive behaviours around food to cope is nonessential.
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