THE ANOREXIA

I decided to present you the subject of the anorexia. It is the disease which is translated by a refusal to feed, and which can have grave consequences. It touches between 2 and 10% (percent) of the women, in particular between 12 and 15 years and 18 and 23 years. This disease is exceptional among the men, these last ones representing only 10% of the referenced cases. Through this account, we are going to try to understand how this disease starts, then what it provokes, and finally how to be cured.

INTRODUCTION

The anorexia is a Food Behavioural Problem, as the bulimia and the food compulsion. These three disorders are not to be confused. The bulimia is the consummation at time short of an important quantity of food. That without pleasure, without hunger nor satisfaction, with a strong feeling of loss of control and culpability. It is sometimes followed by vomits, as well as by strategies to burn the gulped down calories. The crisis is associated with a disgust of one who can lead to the suicide. The compulsive food absorbs important quantities of food at least twice a week. It can be one kilo of peanut or two patches of chocolate. She chooses rather a food to please. She tries to escape feelings and doesn’t any more succeed in controlling herself. Obsessed by the food, she avoids to eat in table and eats relatively little during meal. Now that these notions were clarified, we are exactly going to study more the anorexia.

1. How starts this disease?

In the great majority of the cases, the anorexia has an only release mechanism: the obsession of the thinness. It is on the base a wish to slim which degenerates and turns into disease. The most common anorexia is the anorexia nervosa. It corresponds to a refusal to feed bound to a particular mental state. The loss of appetite is secondary, bound to the voluntary and often unconfessed limitation of the food. We differentiate two kind of anorexia nervosa: • • restrictive anorexia: the