Bulimia profile
Many people think that eating and drinking is bulimia, in fact, bulimia in medicine there is a strict definition, and patients suffering from bulimia are not necessarily fat people walk, but a lot of people are the so-called paper. Taiwan has been no large-scale investigation of eating disorders disorders. Taipei City Psychiatric Center Dr. Chen Kuan-yu, the survey found that two high school level, girls have bulimia Higher ratio of 3.3%; high school girls there were 0.9%, in other words, in the surveyed schools, each 100 Higher girls at least 3 people are bulimia.
The basic feature of bulimia:
- 拼了命of eating and drinking, but also well aware that their pattern of eating is not normal.
- Repeated attempts to diet, through a strong, self-emetic, or use laxatives, enemas, diuretics, as well as any drug can be achieved by an attempt to lose weight.
- Overeating and a strong body to remove the conduct of food at least twice per week on average, and this situation continued for more than three months.
- For their own autonomous often can not stop eating produce extreme fear.
- Easily accompany severe anxiety and parent-child conflict.
- In after gorging accompanied by extreme regret and self-belittling thoughts.
- For self-evaluation by the appearance of excessive influence and weight.
The treatment of bulimia, not as the treatment of influenza, like diabetes or high blood pressure, as long as enough to come to swallow pills; most of the basic cause of bulimia is still not clear enough. But the majority of evidence to show that these two eating disorders is the social and cultural factors and biological factors generated by the interaction. Men usually by smoking, drinking to relieve stress, while women are accustomed to through the food to relieve the pressure.
Effects caused by bulimia include electrolyte (salt) imbalance caused hand-foot-tight pump, seizures, arrhythmia, muscle weakness and other physical complications, of course, the psychological harm is one of the biggest side-effects; we recommend that if there is a suspicion they have symptoms of bulimia, please seek professional assistance of a psychiatrist.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Bulimia ...
We all know that overeating of poor health, but many people think that eating and drinking is bulimia, in fact, bulimia in medicine there is a strict definition, can not feel up to judge, the general misconception that people with bulimia patients walk is fat ...
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:57 am
[...] In relation to bulimia patients, most patients with anorexia nervosa is do not feel sick, have a strong idea that the diet is right, or even because the self-demanding, busy with the normal diet does not work , the subconscious that does not work for dinner can save time; In addition some patients based on physical symptoms such as vomiting, abdominal distension and constipation do not eat the ground; because of the lack of disease in patients with anorexia insight and self-perfect image of their own personality characteristics often anorexia treatment, one of the main obstacles. [...]