Emotional Factors for Anorexia Nervosa |
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Posted Date: 6/26/2009 |
Blog by: poost |
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Category: Mental Health Disorders » Eating Disorders |
Anorexia Nervosa is a condition where a person becomes extremely self-obsessed with his or her weight. They begin by normal weight reducing procedures, but gradually start taking extreme measures to slim down. They do not stop after a particle point of slimming down, but go on trying to lose more and more weight, even if it is not required. Little importance is given to deterioration of the health and the stamina. It is definitely more of a disease of the mind caused by a number of emotional factors. While some of the emotional factors of anorexia nervosa are quite obvious, others are not.
The most common emotional factors that cause anorexia nervosa are:
Low self esteem about the body image of oneself- most of the times when one starts suffering from anorexia nervosa is because the person does not feel confident about his or her body. They believe that they are too fat, and become obsessed with themselves after convincing themselves how terribly this feature is going against them and ruining their lives. They start to believe that losing weight is one of the most important things they need to do in order to live life perfectly. Their lack of confidence in their appearance becomes evident in their way of dressing too. They constantly ask you if they are looking fat, and try as you might they would never be convinced enough that they are not looking overweight.
Difficult relationships- often strained relationships especially with the family or close friends or lovers could also act as emotional factors of anorexia nervosa. This point is especially taken into account if the person has often been told by the loved ones that they are ‘too fat’ or that they need to ‘shed weight’. Often it is seen that the person starts blaming his or her weight as the reason for a strained relationship.
Influence of the glamour world- a person who may not really be overweight could also start suffering from anorexia nervosa because of the impact of the culture of the glamour world. For instance teenage girls, with a view to have a body like their favorite super models might start starving themselves, reading diet control procedures in magazines and getting inspired. The craze for the slim figure gets so extreme that they begin to literally starve themselves to look good and win appreciation.
Other psychological causes- many a times emotional factors of anorexia nervosa are hardly related to an obsession with weight control. Often it is just a means by which a person is actually trying to divert his or her focus from some other psychological condition. For instance, often excessive stress can cause a person to start following rigid eating habits, so that their own attention gets diverted from the real cause of the problem. They may do so without really realizing why they do not feel like eating anymore. Bad mood, poor relationships etc, all could drive away the zest for food. However, these causes can often be tough to address, since the direct cause effect relationship of food intake and the psychological conditions is not present.
Many a times it has been found that these emotional factors develop over a long period of time, often starting from early childhood when an individual was for instance, teased at school for being overweight. However, what is interesting is that often those who start suffering from this condition neither are neither overweight nor have ever been overweight ever in their lives. Also for some, the root of the emotional factors of anorexia nervosa lies in the genes.
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