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How to Help Someone With Anorexia Nervosa
Posted Date: 6/26/2009 Blog by: poost
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Category: Mental Health Disorders » Eating Disorders

Encouraging a person suffering from anorexia nervosa to go for a treatment is perhaps the only way of helping him or her. But because the disease involves a lot of denial and defensiveness one has to be very patient and careful while doing so. It should never appear to an anorexic person that you are forcing him for a treatment.
Logical explanations or medical journals won’t be of much help. Try to make the person feel that you are concerned about his/her health and happiness. Listen to what they say and try giving genuine real - life examples which have proven that healthy eating is the proper way to maintain your body.  
Take the help of a medical practitioner in order to be healthy. A blend of care, support and medical treatment will restore you back to your normal health within a few days. Doctors try out a variety of therapies, a proper diet regime and lots of care for this kind of patients. Remember harsh behavior or forced treatment may not yield desired results.
Monitoring the diet of an anorexic patient is very important. But this should be done very subtly. Supervising the food of an anorexic patient is a very hazardous task. One has to be very careful while doing so. Don’t act like an authority. Be friendly and make the patient understand the need of their body.  Restrict yourself from making comments on someone’s figure. The anorexic person should realize all by himself that it’s not the body but the person for whom everyone is concerned. Make the person feel that looks don’t count always rather how he or she feels from within gets counted.
The patient may be very much worried about calorie intake and in the process may lose weight at a fast pace. If this be the case remember a few things :
•    Don’t accommodate the normal family meals for the patient
•    Avoid verbal contradictions over food
•    Try and listen what the other person wants to say
•    Don’t act like a counselor
Try not to set limitations if any of your near and dear ones are suffering from this kind of eating disorder. If you want to help your loved ones out of this difficulty avoid unnecessary pressurizing and negative comments. Never say to an anorexic patient   that “you look sick”, “what is your problem in life?” and stuff like that. Though encouragement is very necessary for this kind of patients but realization on their own part is equally needed. The patient himself should be willing to recover. Nobody can make a choice for him/her.
If anorexia nervosa is diagnosed at an early stage therapies are the best way of treating along with a healthy diet. But unfortunately, most of the time patients reach a life- threatening stage before seeking help. Many a times it also happens that a sufferer is scared of asking help for they don’t feel secure enough to do so. So before you try to get to the roots of the problem, be a patient listener and listen to all the grievances or events that have led to this predicament in a healthy person’s life.  
If you are being a guide to an anorexic person be confident about your diet and habits. Set your own example to prove the fact that a healthy diet is the key to a happy and healthy life. Boost self esteem and make the person understand that he or she is not “fat” and is very much acceptable to the society which is not bothered about the looks.

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