Anorexia

You may be struggling with anorexic traits if your friends and family tell you that you are too thin, yet you feel very overweight. Perhaps you are restricting your food intake excessively and are obsessing about food and body image too much of the time. You may have lost a large percentage of your body weight.

This would be an appropriate time to see a psychotherapist and work on self-awareness, identifying your strengths, your ideas, feelings and values. As you begin working on yourself, try to stay away from thinking and talking about food.

By identifying your emotional issues, you can begin to take small steps to overcoming those issues and this alone will help you to begin to feel more in control of your life.

Common Traits of Those Struggling with Anorexia

High standards in general
Refusal to maintain body weight over a minimal normal weight for age and height
Body weight may be 15% below normal weight
Low self esteem (but usually tries to cover this up)
Achievement oriented
Competitive
Obsessive
Intense fear of gaining weight
May perceive one area of the body as “too fat” when it is obviously not
Overly productive
Perfectionism
Defiant
Stubborn
Unusual eating patterns
May be excessive with exercise
May not be able to distinguish hunger signals
Feels ineffective
Dysfunctional family of origin
Overly compliant with friends
May socially withdraw at times

Medical Complications

Lack of menstrual periods
Slow pulse rate
Excessively fine body hair
Starvation
Fatigue
Death
Osteoporosis

 

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