Anorexia in Young Women

One of the problems that occur in adolescence is Anorexia Nervosa. That is a peculiar disorder, especially for young women, where there is a great weight loss is intentional, amenorrhoea and the presence of specific psychopathology.

Anorexia Nervosa often occurs at age 14-18 years and there are some people who experience it at ages younger. According to the study 90-95% of people with this disorder suffered by young women and is usually found in middle-class socio-economic upward.

Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms are often not detected early on because at first the patient did not complain about a disturbance at her. And until one day the family learned that his daughter had become increasingly thinner from day to day. And while it is also a family or new parents realize that children often do not want to eat good morning, afternoon or night due to the reasons preoccupations.

Usually people with this disorder also stopped her menstrual cycle, but at first people did not seem weak and even increase its activities to avoid the more solid meal. Finally, because the activities of an increasingly crowded and busy and there is no food that enters the patient body weight decreased, frequent anxiety, decreased concentration, emotional instability, began to withdraw from the environment, pale, weak, unable to sleep, there is a hollow eyes , and so on.

In physical examination it was found that the skin becomes dry and visible with the growth of lanugo on the cheek, neck, hands and feet. His blood pressure also decreased to (90/60 mm Hg), concave belly, flat butt, some hormones such as LH (Luitenezing hormone) and FSH (Folical stimulating hormone) to crash.

Typical psychopathology in people with Anorexia Nervosa is a great fear for the fat, as if there was a view within her that fat is disgusting and not liked by the people around him.

Factor is usually the originators of depression can be caused by a variety of things such as: family breakdown / broken home, abandoned by the family of a loved one dies, the demands of parents that are too high on her daughter's achievements, and so forth.

This disorder can be cured, but it requires quite a long time and have to sacrifice on the part of the family to continue to be patient and painstaking in providing support to sufferers.

Usually the patient when it is severe, it would be difficult to be cured separately fact rarely ended in death. For so beware when our teens are getting hard to eat, begin to move over and show symptoms of the disorder is Anorexia Nervosa, quick-quick to take action

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