Most people in their mid-twenties go through a kind of developmental shock as they are confronted by new and different kinds of personal challenges in their lives. The woman is only recently no longer a young girl. There are new responsibilities to get hold of and has different expectations placed on her by others and herself. Some changes go on in her body as well. Whether she accepts those expectations or not, she still has to deal with them. This is a particularly stressful and often overwhelming time for an anorexic young woman.
If you take it fundamentally, anorexia nervosa is what you would call a psychiatric disease; it is one of those conditions that can have extremely adverse effects on the body, leading to some very serious health related problems, even to death, especially if it is left untreated. Known to most of us as the modern-day disease, anorexia nervosa is largely caused due to societal pressure and the very fact that women (and even some men) believe that slim is beautiful.
Taking this fact into consideration, many of the modern-day women, especially the teens, have now started to starve themselves and have developed some very serious eating disorders so as to lose weight. Stress and pressure are two of the main causes for the disease.
This is how the pattern goes – a person suffering from anorexia nervosa will become thinner and thinner with the passing of days, but to that particular person, it is just not enough. So, what happens is the person tries harder and harder to get thinner and this leads to several serious psychological problems.
Typically, an anorexic will shy away from socializing since he or she feels that being thin is the only way to be accepted by society on the whole. The common factor in most of these cases is that the person inflicted with the disease will usually deny having any problem at all.
FREQUENT SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
· Weight loss of at least 15% of body weight without physical illness.
· High energy level despite body wasting.
· Intense fear of obesity.
· Depression.
· Appetite loss.
· Constipation.
· Cold intolerance.
· Refusal to maintain a minimum standard weight for age and height.
· Distorted body image. The person continues to feel fat even when emaciated.
· Cessation of menstrual periods
· Weight loss of at least 15% of body weight without physical illness.
· High energy level despite body wasting.
· Intense fear of obesity.
· Depression.
· Appetite loss.
· Constipation.
· Cold intolerance.
· Refusal to maintain a minimum standard weight for age and height.
· Distorted body image. The person continues to feel fat even when emaciated.
· Cessation of menstrual periods
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