Underneath Anorexia

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underneath

When we think of the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa we tend to think of someone just refusing to eat, and slowly getting thinner and thinner in their appearance, and the reasons they don’t eat is so they don’t get fat.

This eating disorder has many hidden layers, research into this disorder has been linked with deep emotional problems, the suffer with this eating disorder uses Anorexia to cover up feelings they find difficult to control.

The way this works for the suffer is they need to be in control of something and have a power over something to control, in this case it’s their body, by controlling what they eat and depriving their body of it’s needs, the suffer has a new focus and this takes away the need to think about the difficult feelings they can not face at the time.

With this way of approach the suffer begins to develop a love hate relationship with food. The suffer will control their intake of food and try to create a closed self sufficient system, where they need no input (food)

Anorexia Nervosa means loss of appetite, but in fact it is more about control of appetite, by feeling this way about food and being in control of what they give their body’s they feel a power and are thinking that they are coping.

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The suffer will develop tricks to hide food, and to depose of food if eating in front of family members. Telling lies about what they have been eating, and worst of all lying to themselves.

A suffer will eat but very little, may be a slice of bread or pick at their food in company, once out of view the suffer will feel guilt because of eating something and go in to compulsive excessive exercising to burn of the food.

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The sooner the suffer is spotted the better and help is offered for a full recovery by therapy or groups for Anorexics, to get to the route of the problem, will stop the suffer going to the point of no return.