Eating disorders: causes, symptoms, and treatment approaches

Eating Disorders

Anorexia nervosa has been known to cause various physical and mental health problems. Among physical health risks are stunted growth, lowered immune system functions, amenorrhoea which causes women to stop menstruating, tooth decay, thinning of the hair, coldness, an chronic headaches, (Stoppler 2008).

Easting disorders can lead to a very distorted body image. Distorted self-image lesson the reality of one's real image and impose a unequivocal image in the mind. This then creates the paranoia of being overweight leading to lowered self-esteem. Constant worrying and leave one paranoid, hopeless, and depressed.

Society has always had a relation with cultural boy image and the individuals drive to meet that image. Recent years have painted particularly negative images of body representations when associated with fast food, and an ever growing dependency on the use of diets to slim down. These diets then fuel a multi-million dollar industry, and so the latest diet is always a craze to be forgotten for the next one.

4. Family environment plays a large role in current and past eating habits. In many cases, the parental influence helps mold what our children are eating. Yet, at the same time, parents are substituting desirous fatty foods in order to please children rather than enforcing healthier eating habits which will create a much healthier environment for the child as he or she enters into adulthood.

5. I believe someone with disordered eating would be more likely to want to talk about eating disorders. In many cases, those who eat disorderly have no idea they themselves are on the brink of the different side of eating orders, and so don't associate any personal grief to the topic. Yet, people with eating disorders are more likely to be embarrassed or shameful of their enactment of such voluntary eating disorders which might have gotten out of hand.