Anorexia Nervosa

If you’re anorexic, then you have an eating disorder and a serious mental health condition. This usually begins during puberty and can continue well into adulthood if not treated. The symptoms include a morbid fear of gaining weight, which drives food restriction and an obsession to remain thin or under a certain specific weight.

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental health disorder, killing between 5% and 20% of people who suffer from it. 

Half of anorexia sufferers have comorbidity issues e.g., anxiety, OCD or social phobias.

Up to 50% of anorexics have a mood disorder such as anxiety or depression.

Men suffering from anorexia are less likely to have access to mental health services.

Organs in the body may be permanently damaged owing to lack of nutrition.

There are two types of anorexia, one is restrictive, and the other is purging.

Anorexia is very difficult to diagnose as the anorexic person fears being found out, they will go to many lengths to hide it.

The precise cause of anorexia is still unknown. This serious mental health condition certainly is psychophysiological in nature. The anorexic suffers from a distortion of reality, the body that they view in the mirror is not the actual body that the rest of us can see. Quite often anorexia runs in families, that isn’t to say it’s hereditary, but more likely learned and passed on. Studies into adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) show that a child’s development can be impacted by this adversity. The negative emotional memory images (EMI’s) that are created at this time, remain stored in the mind’s eye. Perhaps, the EMI is the distorted filter through which the person observes their life and their body.

People who suffer with eating disorders, whether clinically diagnosed or not will be preoccupied with food and their body weight. The anorexic or those suffering with anorexia come in 2 types

 

• the restricting type who are focused on not eating and remaining below a certain size, shape and weight.
• the purging type who has eating binges, vomit, use laxatives or masses of exercise to maintain a calorie deficit.

The difference between anorexia and anorexia nervosa is that anorexia is not being willing or having a repulsion to eating. Whereas the name given to the clinical eating disorder is anorexia nervosa. The main presenting symptom of the disorder is self-starvation.
When one considers ‘starving the self’ from a metaphysical level, then it’s easier to understand why someone would want to starve themselves. It’s the ‘Identity’ of the person that is at odds with their current reality, adjusting this perception is key to taking hold of the mind again. Although it’s very difficult, as most people who suffer rarely get the help they need because current medical models focus on the physical.
Anorexia nervosa continues to be a problem for a growing number of people who are treated by a medical system, which uses Descartes thoughts ‘only matter can impact matter’ in the 21st century more and more physicians are waking up to the reality that ‘non-matter can impact matter’ i.e., thoughts can have an effect on the body.

Shyness, anxiety, worrying and pessimism are all typical traits of someone with anorexia nervosa. When one considers that their subconscious mind sees food and the growth of their body as harmful then it’s easier to understand why they would have these traits. Imagine your mother, father, caregiver or someone you love telling you that you have to eat when your mind tells you that eating is bad for you. You can end up shutting yourself off from the outside world as your mind tells you that you can’t believe anyone. Sadly, as you close the door to the external world, you become a prisoner to your internal one.

Physical symptoms of anorexia include

• Abdominal pain
• Cold hands and feet
• Dehydration
• Extremely low body weight
• Hair loss on the scalp and hair growth over the rest of the body (lanugo) in the bodies effort to conserve heat
• Loss in bone density
• Muscle loss and weakness
• Paled, dry skin

Signs that someone has anorexia can fall into different categories – physical, emotional and behavioural. These include:

• Stomach cramps
• Always needing to exercise
• Not wanting to eat with others
• Fatigue
• Perfectionism
• Secretive around food/hiding or getting rid of food to avoid eating
• Constantly thinks or talks about body shape and size
• Withdrawal from friends/family
• Weighing themselves often
• Anxiety
• Constantly seeking approval
• Depression
• Self-critical in all areas

Clinical or medical hypnotherapy can be used to treat the subconscious mind, which is, after all the root of the problem. The anorexic is in the hypnotic trance, the body they perceive as large, and grotesque is actually withering away and dying. Helping the anorexic to become free of this subconscious trap is very tricky work indeed. The patient does not want to achieve the outcome whilst in their current state of mind, therefore, approaching them with a conscious, cognitive talking therapy just doesn’t appear to work. The therapist must stay 3 steps ahead of the client, whereas the traditional therapy model allows the client to lead.

Anorexia nervosa, commonly called anorexia, is a severe eating disorder that results in being underweight, afraid of gaining weight, having a distorted body image, and harboring a desire to remain thin. Anorexia is often influenced by the photoshopped images of beautiful people we see in the media, and the notion that going without food can help the victim of anorexia to be more like these visual icons. 

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