How does anorexia start?

Now it occurs if you really want to lose weight and you try to almost not eat. Often the stomach begins to ache. Or it can overflow from mom to dad, etc.

A person begins to fixate on food and his body. For example, he starts a calorie diary, often looks at himself in the mirror and plays a lot of sports. Slowly reduces the calorie content of foods and sometimes may not eat or eat, for example, one apple.

This is just an example, for each person, I think it starts out differently.

There are different types of anorexia, just write about anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia nervosa has several essential factors:

• child education with a lack of support and constant demand for success without praise. As a result, the idea appears "I can love you only if you do something." Then it transforms into "I don't need anyone."
• the presence of an increased anxiety background (adolescence, change in anxiety in the family, separation from parents, violent changes in adulthood). Then the childish idea "Nobody needs me" is transformed into "Nobody loves me, because I am not crooked", then "To become beautiful you need to lose weight, then they will love me."

For more details, see Vratze's article about the causes of anorexia. You can also read about the typical history of the onset of anorexia in the article A special case of anorexia.

The disease is a special type of neuropsychological disorder, which is manifested by refusal to eat and an obsessive desire to lose weight. The mortality rate is very high.

Before deciding on the causes and factors that cause anorexia , it should be noted that there are several types of it:

• Mental. Occurs against the background of various psychological diseases or the use of psychotropic substances. Quite often, anorexia is diagnosed in people suffering from mental diseases such as schizophrenia, delusional ideas, paranoia, depression.
• Symptomatic. It is a manifestation of somatic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, thyroid gland, etc.
• Medicinal. Occurs when a person violates the dosage while taking psychostimulants, antidepressants and other medications of this kind.
• Nervous (psychological ). It manifests itself as a deliberate restriction of oneself in food with one single purpose - to lose weight.