Anorexia Rehabilitation Answers

Hi, I’m Virginia Fisher, An anorexia consultant based in California and specializing in teenage anorexia

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Anorexia Rehabilitation

In order to explain Anorexia the progress can be divided into four stages. These stages trace the disease as the victims thoughts, feelings and personality become distorted and their basic individuality is lost and will not return until recovery through anorexia rehabilitation.

Before anorexia rehabilitation can take place we first we need to clarify what anorexia is. Many descriptions of anorexia take a medical viewpoint, detailing the effects that the disease’s progress has on the body. Medically anorexia is characterized by weight loss, followed by lowered body temperature, slowed hight rate, loss of menses (loss of blood at menstration), thinning of hair, fatigue and other signs of malnutrition.

As the anorexic continues to lose weight, new symptoms develop and intensify. The last lethal stage for anorexic patients is failure of the liver, kidneys and finally the heart.

Anorexia Behavior

A second way of describing the progress of anorexia is by the actions or behavior of the victim that causes the weight loss. As the anorexia progresses, the anorexic consumes fewer and fewer calories. Exercise may intensify, additional weight losing efforts such as laxative abuse will develop.

Attempts will be made to replace sugar with artificial sweeteners. All of this will result in a severely malnourished, protein deficient, over exercised under muscled starver.

The Achievement Stage:

Anorexia typically begins with a desire on the part of the anorexic to lose weight, to be thin, and thus make themselves socially acceptable to their peers.

The first stage of the disease does not indicate abnormal behavior. Rather it is in line with the trend most girls adopt who consider gaining weight unacceptable and an enemy to be fought with an all out assault.

Most dieters are not predisposed towards anorexia. Most dieters will give up before reaching their goals as if they are overweight they will find diets boring and depressing. However anorexics are perfectionists and the goal of losing weight becomes an all out effort that results in ‘super dieting’.