Archive for the ‘Eating Disorders’ Category
Eating Disorders: Compulsive Dining
Most binge eaters are people who combine a high level of anxiety, perfectionism and low self-esteem and a very high level of stress.
Often know that their eating goes beyond normal or recommended and be aware of the risks faced by their compulsive behavior: heart attacks, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney damage or loss, arthritis, deterioration of the bone and even death.
Binge eaters suffer the feeling of being controlled by food, rather than otherwise, and not bother much about it. This domain do they eat all kinds of food such as sweets or burgers on the rare combinations, and aesthetically unpleasant-possible.
Binge eaters fall into mental illness with anorexia and bulimia, obesity is located within a medical and not necessarily related to an eating disorder. Furthermore, the etiology of binge eating refers, so far, problems in the patient’s personality, biochemical disorders in the brain, genetic and environmental factors and cultural factors and family. Read the rest of this entry »
Eating Disorders
Eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, binge, or any combination of these (or one that falls into the category of eating disorder not otherwise specified) are all psychological illnesses, none less or more serious than the other.
All have their complications and potential physical hazards, all presented in one form or another as an eating disorder and all have their roots in emotional distress and low self-esteem, need to forget feelings and/or stress, need to eliminate pain, anger and/or stay away from people, and foremost, need to live with this problem.
The American Psychiatric Association acknowledged in its manual-DSM-IV-that there are several types of mental disorders related to food, they share an intense preoccupation with weight, food and body shape changes. They divide the eating disorders in Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Food Descontrol syndrome. Read the rest of this entry »