Thursday, August 12, 2010

How Much Is My Charizard Worth?

The mirror lies: anorexia




"All I have is over my whole body. I have toes. I have fat wrists. My eyes are fat (fat eyes Can you imagine?) "
Woody Allen, Stories without feathers, P. 79.

Anorexia is a type of Feeding Behavior Disorder, one of the problems of anorexia, is undoubtedly face in the mirror and returning the person to a world of insecurity and fear, are terrified to increase weight and live an eternal search unattainable thinness, accompanied by distorted perception and delusion of his body, this can act as a snow ball aimlessly forward and it is getting bigger, until it became an untenable situation both to the patient and family.
can "google" and find a number of photographs of women with skeletal bodies, almost cadaverous, and his message will only alert parents of a potential victim of this disease, the victim and will never reach it is a psychiatric illness whose origin is in the brain.
This makes the treatment is so complex, it requires an interdisciplinary team which act together a psychiatrist specializing in the issue, a school psychologist and a psychoanalyst, cognitive behavioral school and a medical specialist nutrition all working together to benefit the patient.
Since most people with this illness do not seek help, report to parents, relatives and friends who are aware of what certain warning signs, such as:
  1. Start a decrease their weight by fasting and reduced food intake, usually initially suspended carbohydrates, then fat, protein and even fluids, leading to cases of extreme dehydration.
  2. These measures may be added other associated behaviors such as use of diuretics, laxatives, purging, induced vomiting or excessive physical exercise.
If you suspect that your teen may be starting a problem of anorexia:
  1. Take it to a specialist psychiatrist in the field to evaluate your case and to help them.
  2. Parents should spend time together sharing a day where you talk and acaricide
  3. Parents should lower the level of demand, order and rigidity.
  4. must refer to it by extolling the positive aspects of your person and not discuss their problem with others in his presence.
  5. Remarkable feminine values \u200b\u200b
  6. The parent must bow to his daughter his feminine side, this is its sensitivity, intuition, emotions, etc.
  7. She should talk to your daughter on your pass from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, avoiding comment on the fears of menstruation and relationships with boys.
  8. Make meals pleasant moments with your family, create simpre habits such as eating lunch together at the table and stay if you can eat together after doing something creative with it.
  9. Edit Algua day routine that has a favorable shift to cognitively learn that change can bring good things.
  10. Give them responsibility
  11. to feel that she has control over some things
These are just some guidelines recommended when detected early the disease, we must understand that anorexia is a serious disease that can take the patient to death, which is why the importance of early consultation with a specialist.

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