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Women’s health & fitness guide

Of all the different kinds of psychotherapy available family therapy is perhaps the one most commonly suggested as being beneficial to the anorexic? Probably because the majority of sufferers that yield to anorexia are children, most of them being young girls between the ages of 15 and 18.

Family therapy works by involving not only the young person who is anorexic but also the family as the name suggests, it is thought that many anorexics blame there problems on everything else but themselves.

Often too the family suffer but in a different way they blame themselves for failing there child, asking themselves “where did we go wrong?” It is just as important for them too to realize they are not the ones at fault.

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Women’s health & fitness guide

Anorexia nervosa is a eating disorder that affects millions of individuals throughout the world. Anorexia has no lines it will not cross and will inflict itself upon young women of all ages and races, as well as men. Anorexia is a disease, classified as an eating disorder, where individuals will starve themselves on purpose.

There are many theories on the cause of anorexia and weight loss is the most common side effect of anorexia. However, weight loss is not the only effect anorexia will have on an individual.

Suffering from anorexia, an individual most likely will develop drastic changes to their personality. An individual who is normally outgoing and considered to be an extrovert will suddenly withdraw into themselves and become more subdued.

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Women’s health & fitness guide

Relapses can and will happen on the road to recovery from anorexia relapses are common in any illness and anorexia is no exception. To the anorexic this can be devastating for they already have a deep sense of failure and worthlessness, this has been a part of there illness for so long it is now second nature and a relapse is often devastating to the anorexic.

Relapses can happen anywhere from a day to a month but the most important thing to remember is that it is a common occurrence; it also doesn’t mean that you are right back where you started. It doesn’t mean you are a failure, you didn’t do anything wrong it is just a minor set back on the long road to total recovery.

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Women’s health & fitness guide

It is important to stress here that there is no miracle cure for anorexia, it is not something as simple as a chest infection or any other viral infection that can be treated with antibiotics, and this is merely an option that might work after advice with your own doctor.

Psychotherapy is one of many options that are available to the sufferer of anorexia nervosa, psychotherapy is treatment by discussion, and there is nothing to say for certain that psychotherapy does or will work for sure but it is one option that is worth looking deeper into.

There are many different kinds of psychotherapy available which can be used as treatment for anorexia and for some people of the people who venture down this avenue psychotherapy does and has thought to have helped them.

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Women’s health & fitness guide

Much research has been done on anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder affecting millions of people in the world. Studies have shown that many eating disorders, such as anorexia, tend to be more prominent in some families.

This research indicates that certain genetic factors may in fact predispose some individuals to anorexia. However, is blaming anorexia on genetics a cop-out?

Many of the studies on anorexia have resulted in the belief that there is not just one thing that will cause an eating disorder such as anorexia.

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Women’s health & fitness guide

When treating eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia, there are several aspects of treatment as they are complex disorders. Psychiatric counseling, nutrition counseling, and behavioral counseling are all part of the treatment plan for those suffering from eating disorders. However, the anti-depressant also plays a very important role in treating eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia.

Those diagnosed with eating disorders commonly have other psychiatric disorders, such as social phobia, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or depression. According to research, as many as 80 percent of those diagnosed with bulimia are also diagnosed with mood disorders.

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