Consider the time you told yourself you are fat. The basis of that came from having A little weight higher than someone you know. Then you suddenly decided that you will involve yourself in a diet. The start of concerning yourself in a diet was also the launch of you taking extreme measures to lose more weight.
You started by cutting your intake of calorie by a small amount of say about a thousand per day. Purposeful inside programs started following. You choose running. You began setting limitations on yourself like not eating unless you have finished running of about 10 miles. After finishing the miles you set, you began eating but only about a handful of cereals and a few vegetables. Sometimes, you only eat when you are really hungry that you are about to faint.
Psychologist David Garner and his colleagues developed the Eating Disorder Inventory. Eating Disorder Inventory aids in assessing the attitudes and behaviors of people towards eating and their bodies. Eating Disorder Inventory has 12 sentences. These twelve sentences are:
I think my stomach is too big.
I eat when I am upset.
I stuff myself with food.
I think about dieting.
I think that my thighs are too large.
I feel ineffective as a person.
I feel extremely guilty after overeating.
I am terrified of gaining weight.
I get confused as to whether or not I am hungry.
If I gain a pound, I worry that I will keep gaining.
I have the thought of trying to vomit in order to lose weight.
I eat or drink in secrecy.
If you happen to say yes to most of the items, you have to reconsider your attitudes towards your body and food. It might be helpful to have someone to talk to about it. Answering too many “always” to the sentences provided is likely for an individual to grow an eating disorder.
The use of medications is one of the most potent ways to treat an individual who has eating disorders. Tricyclic antidepressants are great in decreasing binging and vomiting in enhancing a sense of power among people. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors or MAO inhibitors is also helpful as an eating disorder treatment although they are not typically prescribed owed to the reason that they need dietary restrictions that are so severe to block side effects. One medication that proves to be most effective in treating eating disorder is fluoxetine also known as Prozac. However, there is a negative side effect in taking these medications. They prove to be addictive.
According to one woman interviewed after she went into a drug rehab due to taking medications to recover from her eating disorder, “I first started having problems with my body caused by my eating disorder. My menstruation stopped. I get chronically tired and I have problems sleeping. I even faint a couple of times. I told my parents about it and made me see a specialist. The specialist prescribed me some Prozac.”
She went on to tell, “The recommended Prozac was very effective on the eating disorder that I had but I started craving the drug. I wanted the effects to last. I started getting addicted to it. Despite recovering from my eating disorder, I am still taking the drug. There are even times I lie that I have not yet recovered just to have Prozac. Right now, I have been out of drug rehab and I am thankful for it. We should always be careful because one thing can really lead to another.”
Eating disorders are very easy to treat. One should not be weak enough to actually seek for help.
