Anorexia and bulimia

Anorexic people are afraid to get fat, they want to be thin and have a perfect figure that’s why they are to much concentrate with their weight and their look. They are always cold people and they like to be alone, avoiding contact with friends and relatives.
Anorexia starts when there is a crisis of personality or problems with the family. Most of the anorexics are women and they try to improve themselves more and more, controlling their weight and vomiting are the most important events in their life.Those that vomit have a different disease, call bulimia. This disease is which they eat compulsively and soon they vomit it.
It usually affects in people before de age 25 (usually in adolescent age, between 15 an 18 years). Studies have show that the 5% adolescent population is affected by alimentary disorders.

Anorexics Symptoms:

1.- Don’t want to keep their weight
2.-Vomitate
3.-Start eating less and less
4.- Can’t concentrate in their studies
5.- Lose their menstruatin
6.- People feel cold, lose their hair...
Etc...

Anorexics Treatments:

• The best treatment is a group therapy
• Talking about the problem
• Help of the family
• And the more important is adquiring the right eatingattitude

Bulimia Symptoms:

1.- Eating with out control
2.- Feeling that it’s impossible to stop eating
3.- Fasting to compensate for previous over eating
4.- Inducing vomits that are denied
5.- Abusing of laxatives and diuretics
6.- Problems with theeth
7.- Changes of humor and deppresions

Bulimia Treatments:

• The best treatment is group or individual therapy
• Then, adquiring the right eating actitude
• The bulimy there is a pharmacologic treatment
• The most affective are antidepressants