Eating behavior means much more than just meeting nutritional needs. Healthy eating behavior plays an important role in establishing the verbal and non-verbal relationship between mother and baby. Breast feeding is the first moment when mother and child establish a bond and engage in dialogue. This most precious and vitally important behavior is rejected when something goes wrong somewhere. Refusing to eat is leaving oneself to die slowly.
Even though words such as "the influence of the media" and "wannabe of a model" come to mind when you first hear them, anorexia is beyond these, cutting off one's own lifeline. Anorexia is different from starting a diet every Monday and binging on food in the middle of the week, counting calories and eliminating sugar from your life. It means seeing yourself as fat when you look in the mirror, even if your bones are counted. Anorexia is a vortex that reflects from body perception to all body functions.
Anorexia nervosa was defined by William W. Gull in 1873 as meaning "nervous anorexia". Appetite experience is quite diverse in patients with anorexia nervosa, and it would be more appropriate to think of it as generally refusing to eat. The patient with anorexia nervosa creates a feeling of stopping time and development by controlling his or her body to an excessive extent, and establishes a distorted perception of autonomy and effectiveness. The fear of not being able to stop eating and losing control once you start eating is one of the basic vicious cycles of anorexia.
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder that is much more complex than a strict diet. There are traces of serious developmental disorders in their origins. Generally, this occurs in times of developmental crisis, often during the adolescent's period of becoming a self-sufficient, independent person.
Unlike those on normal diets, those at the beginning of anorexia never openly express their desire to lose weight. It may even be possible for them to stop feeding completely, in great secrecy and with an easily developed devotion. Sometimes slowly, sometimes with great speed, everything is organized around food. Calories are counted, “meals” are eaten at certain times, with certain habits, in limited amounts, and there are no mouth-watering foods around. It does not cause any discomfort. In fact, they spend most of their time sticking their noses into what others eat. These are rituals that are compatible with an eating disorder and have become the main daily preoccupations of the anorexic person. It is a flood of life that cannot gush out, cannot find a way, is blocked, and is paralyzed by fear. The desire to live and the fear of taking on life is a difficult struggle that requires a lot of patience, support and personal discretion.
There are many treatments for anorexia. An internal medicine specialist should be sought for the vitamins and basic functions the body has lost, a psychiatrist should be sought for medication support, and a psychologist should be sought to find out the underlying causes and for psychological treatment. It should not be forgotten that anorexia is a message, a symptom given by the unconscious. It is up to you whether or not to reply to this message.
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