神经性厌食:开发和治疗

找出一些人开发厌食症和治疗厌食症。

我们大多数人担心体重....我们中的许多人超重或肥胖,爱失去那些多余的体重。但是有些人担心恰恰相反,这是“增重”。Many who suffer from that worry are suffering from an "进食障碍”,尤其是神经性厌食症或暴食症。神经性厌食症的潜在问题是害怕变胖或体重增加。有许多心理问题与害怕增加体重有关,如心理控制,完美主义,和焦虑。

大多数患有厌食症的女性,与男性只占10%的患者。进食障碍的发病通常在adolescense或成年早期。虽然有很多事情可以启动流程导致厌食症的发生,往往是完全无害的,如有人说“她是变胖”或说某人很瘦看起来“好”。

对那些倾向于发展问题,这可以设置的“最后一根稻草”运动过分追求苗条,害怕变胖和“失去控制”。The behavior that goes with this concern is eating less and less -- often little more that salads and vegetables, but foods with very few calories and almost no nutritional value. The end result is a loss of weight, often to the point of development of health problems such as thinning of bones, drop in body temperature (causing a continuous feeling of cold), loss of periods in females, heart problems and sometimes death. To make matters worse, those with diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa develop a distorted body image such that although the patient's body may be dangerously thin, when they look in the mirror they see themselves as fat. This causes the disease to continue despite concern of family and friends, and even advice of physicians to change the behavior.

治疗神经性厌食症

很难得到患者接受治疗,但是治疗是可能的。治疗神经性厌食症包括恢复病人健康的体重和营养状况、治疗与进食障碍相关的心理问题——包括扭曲的身体形象,处理涉及的行为,和治疗焦虑、内疚、控制等问题。

其他饮食失调涉及:暴食(吃大量的食物在很短的时间跨度内)和清除(通过呕吐,和滥用泻药或锻炼)称为暴食症,和暴食二级心理问题称为饮食失调不指定(NOS)或“暴食症。"

更多信息的难度的康复和治疗饮食失调可以在社区HealthyPlace饮食失调。

在饮食失调治疗HealthyPlace电视节目6月2日,星期二(7:30p CT, 8:30生活和按需在我们的网站上),我们将讨论为什么它很难从厌食症和贪食症中恢复过来。

哈利克罗夫特博士是在有执照的精神病学家和医学主任HealthyPlace.com。克罗夫特博士也的搭档HealthyPlace电视节目。

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