Bulimia operates on three levels which include psychological, physical, and biochemical side effects.
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Treatment for bulimia will usually include your doctor who may also refer you to a counselor in eating disorders. People with bulimia seldom need to be admitted to hospital for treatment unless there are complications such as extreme physical problems or severe depression.
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Anorexia has one main type of symptoms which are all psychological. Unlike bulimia it is more to do with the mind not the body. It is often associated with emotionally stressed adolescent girls who genuinely feel in their minds that they are too fat so they resort to starvation.
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Anorexia is a serious eating disorder which causes a person to deliberately lose a dangerous amount of weight. A person with anorexia sees her/himself as heavier than s/he actually is. S/he often has personality traits such as low self-esteem, perfectionism and a ‘too good to be true’ nature. S/he may also have had unhappy childhood experiences such as a failure to make a mark or a troubled family background.
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Bulimia has two main types of symptoms: psychological and physical. The psychological symptoms include uncontrolled food cravings, unhealthy fear of gaining weight and self-disgust. The physical symptoms are the result of bingeing and purging.
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Bulimia is an eating disorder. It is a psychological illness that makes people obsessed with food and eating but fearful of getting fat, sometimes leading to self-destructive impulses, and its symptoms can lead to serious physical illness. People with bulimia tend to binge and eat large amounts of food in a short space of time then make themselves vomit, take laxatives or diuretics (drugs that speed up the body’s removal of waste) to ‘purge’ the food they have eaten.
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There are various underlying medical reasons which can cause you to be underweight. The word “underweight” is a fairly generic term which can mean different things to different people, but there can be no denying the fact that being underweight is not a healthy weight range to be at, and something should be done about it.
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A sudden loss of appetite or a suddenly insatiable appetite can be worrisome. Both cases can be an indication of another, more serious condition. At the other extreme, correcting a chronically poor appetite should become a high priority in your life. There is no cure-all solution, but the ideas presented here may help some of you take control of your appetite.
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Treatment for anorexia involves a number of specialists. As well as providing emotional support for you, the doctors also work to reverse the physical and psychological effects of not eating through diet, drugs and counseling. Hospital treatment may be necessary.
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Anorexia nervosa – commonly known as anorexia – is one of a group of eating disorders in which psychological factors play a strong role. People with anorexia lose large amounts of weight on purpose because they are afraid of being overweight.
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