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Many eating disorders, like Anorexia, usually have a fatal outcome. Years of starvation can take its toll on the body, causing (among other things), and massive organ failure. When the line of personal safety has been crossed, there is only one option left to the individual: the body gives up the fight to live and death results. |
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The world of mental health is one that is constantly changing. Many mental health professionals have long since resigned themselves to the fact that the human mind and its inner workings cannot be so easily categorized into neat little boxes. Mental health patients are varied and unpredictable, and you can guarantee that eventually one of those patients will break the mold and present a behavior as of yet not seen by the professionals. Documentation of these cases comes in the form of a series of journals called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Version Four, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). |
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In contrast to Anorexia Nervosa, where the patient is in total denial about their situation, most bulimics already know and admit that they suffer from a life-threatening illness. The facts are that the constant binging and purging over the years takes a toll on human bodies. Abusing laxatives and repeated vomiting can cause irreparable damage to the rectum and/or esophagus, resulting in heavy bleeding that can happen so quickly a patient can "bleed out" in the time it takes for an ambulance to arrive. The mindset of a bulimic is such that their denial comes in the form of hopelessness for recovery. Life to the bulimic appears to be no more than one long, endless cycle of binging and purging to lose weight or avoid gaining weight. If a bulimic reaches the age of thirty, figuring the individual started the behavior when he or she were a teen, he/she is so deeply ingrained with the bulimic mindset that the binging and purging becomes almost as second nature as breathing. Although some bulimics will try to reform themselves, they fall short in relapse prevention. |
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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Anorexia is an eating disorder that involves men and women of all ages, and in all walks of life. This disorder is not about wanting to drop a few pounds and getting more exercise as a means of staying physically fit. Anorexia is about self-starvation, usually to the point where the patient's life is at stake due to malnutrition. The origins of the disorder are not physical in nature, such as the severe loss of appetite of patients on chemotherapy or suffering from AIDS. Anorexia is a condition that has its genesis solely in negative or unresolved emotional conditions such as mood or anxiety disorders that have spun way out of control. |
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As terrifying as death from complications of Anorexia Nervosa are, sometimes it's difficult for the patient and the patient's family to comprehend that recovery is indeed possible. For therapy to be successful, the anorexic patient has a great many emotional and physical hurdles to cross, the first of which is denial that they have the disorder and that eventually, someday, they will die from it. It must be noted, however, that sometimes an anorexic comes to the point of no return. In the final stages or anorexia, not even skilled medical and mental health professionals can save the patient's life; it's simply too late. |
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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If you seek understanding of a complicated psychiatric disorder like Anorexia Nervosa in simple English, the psycho-babble can leave you breathless and frustrated! Most of what we know about mental health conditions comes from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Version Four, and Text Revision otherwise known as the DSM-IV-TR. The fact that this "bible" of mental health disorders is in its fourth version tells us much about how our understanding of these disorders has changed and improved over the years. However, unless you're a skilled mental health practitioner, you have little chance of comprehending this confounding tome! |
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