EATING DISORDER TREATMENT

AN INTRODUCTION TO EATING DISORDER TREATMENT

You are what you eat as they say! But there are instances when your eating is defined by what you are, what characteristics you possess or more precisely what sort of a personality you have or how healthy you are -physically and mentally. Our diets and eating patterns are not formed in one day – neither are they completely isolated with our thoughts, ideas, life-style, past experiences and so on. Eating disorders are perhaps one of the most striking examples when your dietary intake is governed by what is in your mind!

Years of medical research have proved that our behaviors and actions are defined by how we are trained to live throughout our life or how we learn to live, reacting and adapting to certain conditions. What we learn can be good or it can be bad. That means sometimes our actions will benefit us and sometimes they can be harmful or even dangerous to us - Like when we get angry and explode, then we don't know why we did it.

Our subconscious mind operates on feelings and senses. And very often people can't even describe it logically. They just do what the subconscious mind wants or in simple words – they just do whatever they learn for reacting or adapting to something. Eating Disorders come into play when we have learnt to associate food with our emotions in an unhealthy way. When we form bad subconscious habits that force us to eat in an unhealthy fashion while we are struggling with some emotions, thoughts on a mental level.

Hope you understand the basics of Eating Disorder here. Medical experts will make you know more about self sabotage, subconscious will power, technical jargons related to Eating Disorders and stuff like Neuroplasticity and other conventional therapies and so on. Let's keep it simple for time being and hopefully you'll be able to learn everything about Eating Disorders.

It is estimated 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men - and that one in five Americans suffers from mental illnesses. Eating Disorders -- like anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder -- include extreme emotions, angles, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. These are serious physical and emotional issues that may have potentially harmful consequences for females and males. When you are in a standard, healthy mental attitude, you have an active consciousness and realize when you are doing something wrong to yourself.

In the case of people with an eating disorder, they may regularly have such amount of mental stress that they no longer even know what's right, or they no longer care. In many of those cases, they're so far gone that they only know what makes them feel better, which just braces the negative behavior and symptoms of an eating disorder.
There are 3 overarching kinds of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and addictive eating disorder.

All 3 are awfully serious conditions and can be lethal if you do not treat them as major illnesses.
The reason why they are so common is usually because they meet an unhealthy need in individuals that isn't being met elsewhere, for example having a desperate urge to be accepted in society or being praised, desire to be more interesting, possessing control over some facet of your life, looking for a way out of discomfort and so on.

The main roots of the eating disorders come not only from a single factor but instead there are many factors behind it. For example the problem of eating too less has been started earlier with this thinking of the people that being thin makes their personality attractive. Eating disorders is getting increasingly common among teenagers, who constantly face pressure of cultural expectations. These teenagers subsequently develop unhealthy eating habits as they try to fit in without knowing the harmful effects these habits might have.

For women, they may also include hormonal abnormalities which prevent menstruation, and changes in intestinal function which make the sufferers feel full even after eating small quantities of food. Some of the physical problems are life-threatening.

In fact, Eating disorders are a group of several psychiatric disorders which leads to the disturbed eating habits.

Part 2 – Teenage Eating Disorder