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Factors which cause eating disorders

Similar personality traits like low disorders, including obsessive-compulsive
self-esteem, dependency, and problems disorder and depression are commonly to
with self-direction are present to people people with this disorder. A disorder in
with eating disorders. Specific which people have distorted body images
personality disorders or behavioral involving their muscles has been reported
characteristics that might put people at by experts and it is present to men which
higher risk for one or both of the eating believe that are "puny" and results in
disorders have been determined by excessive body building, preoccupation
researchers. with diet and social problems.
The following personality disorders like Another factor which is present in
avoidant personalities and dependent triggering and perpetuating eating
personalities mostly in anorexia and disorders is negative family influence.
borderline and histrionic personalities Children with insecure attachments are
mostly in bulimia and narcissism which present in family with parents who fail
can be present in anorexia and bulimia to provide a safe and secure foundation
too have been reported by studies. in infancy. Mothers play an important
Patients with bulimia or anorexia can role in their child's life. So mothers of
present one of these personality traits. people with bulimia are critical and
The more important factor in determining detached and mothers of anorexics tend to
treatment choices may be the patient's be over-involved in their child's life.
specific personality disorders even if People with either eating disorder have
they are anorexic and bulimic. parents with alcoholism or substance
Avoidant personalities are present to abuse. It seems that psychiatric
people with anorexia. The symptoms which disorders are present to parents of
characterize this personality disorder people with bulimia than parents of
are: being a perfectionist, being patients with anorexia. A higher
emotionally and sexually inhibited, incidence of sexual abuse is often
having less of a fantasy life than people present to women with bulimia. People
with bulimia or without an eating with bulimia have an obese parent or have
disorder, not being rebellious, or been overweight themselves during
usually perceived as always being "good", childhood. Parents can influence their
being terrified of being ridiculed or children's eating habits and prevent
criticized or of feeling humiliated. weight problems and eating disorders
Behavioral and eating pattern can be through a healthy eating habits
developed by the person with both themselves.
anorexia and avoidant personality Genetic factors play an important role in
disorder. So for some individuals the anorexia. From this point of view twins
only way to obtain love is achieving had a tendency to share specific eating
perfection, with all that involves. disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia
Trouble-free and attaining some ideal nervosa and obesity). A genetic
image of thinness make part of the drive propensity toward thinness caused by a
for perfection. In this case the faster metabolism and reinforced by
individual is driven to demand nothing, cultural approval, an inherited
including food. A sense of being even propensity for obesity and inherited
more imperfect and a renewed sense of personality traits are some inherited
striving for perfection precede the traits that might make someone
failure to achieve love. Anorexic susceptible to eating disorders. Culture
patients have a total lack of self but pressures is other factor which can lead
generally people with eating disorders to anorexic people.For example clothes
are not typically suicidal. Through for thin bodies, TV programs which
process of not-eating they try to revenge present anorexic young models. Excessive
on those whose love is always out of exercise plays a major role in many cases
reach. of anorexia at athletes. Young female
Borderline personalities can be present athletes and dancers may present the
to people with bulimic anorexia. The following problems:eating disorders,
following characteristics can be present amenorrhea (absence or irregular
to these people like: frantically fearful menstruation) and osteoporosis.
of being abandoned, unable to be alone, The most common factor present in eating
difficulty to control their anger and disorders which include chemical
impulses, prone to idealize other people abnormalities in the thyroid, the
and unstable moods, thought patterns, reproductive regions, and areas related
behavior and self-images. Emotional to stress, well-being and appetite are
weapons like temper tantrums, suicide hormonal problems. A result of
threats, and hypochondriasis can be used malnutrition or other aspects of eating
by the people with borderline disorders is the change of these
personalities for causing chaos around chemicals. The limbic system is a small
them. The difficulty in treating bulimia area of the brain where many of these
can be the severity of this personality abnormalities begins. Also
disorder and it can be more important hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA)
than the presence of psychological is a specific system with an important
problems, such as depression. role in eating disorders. In brain is
The following personality traits like found a small structure that controls our
inability to soothe oneself, inability to behavior, like eating, sexual behavior
empathize with others, need for and sleeping, and regulates body
admiration, hypersensitive to criticism temperature, emotions, secretion of
or defeat can be present to people with hormones, and movement called
bulimia or anorexia which are often hypothalamus. An extension of the
highly narcissistic. Depression and hypothalamus downwards called the
anxiety disorders can be present to pituitary gland controls thyroid
patients which have eating disorder but functions, the adrenal glands, growth and
also can be present in families of these sexual maturation. Major emotional
patients. It is unknown if emotional activities like anxiety, depression,
disorders, especially aggression and affection are controlled
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), are and regulated by amygdala,a small
causes of the eating disorders. structure which lies deep in the brain.
About 69% of patients with anorexia and Stress hormones called glucocorticoids
33% of patients with bulimia have are produced by the HPA system, including
obsessive-compulsive disorder which is an the primary stress hormone cortisol which
anxiety disorder. It is believed that is very important in marshaling systems
eating disorders are variants of OCD. In throughout the body (including the heart,
compulsive behavior, repetitive, rigid, lungs, circulation, metabolism, immune
and self-prescribed routines that are systems, and skin) to deal quickly with
intended to prevent the manifestation of any threat. The inhibition of
the obsession, may be present obsessions neuropeptide Y (NPY), a powerful appetite
which are recurrent or persistent mental stimulant that also has anti-anxiety
images, thoughts or ideas. Generally properties is one of the specific
women with anorexia and OCD may become effects. Certain neurotransmitters
obsessed with exercise, dieting, and (chemical messengers) that regulate
food. Compulsive rituals like weighing stress, mood and appetite and are being
every bit of food, cutting it into tiny heavily investigated for a possible role
pieces, or putting it into tiny in eating disorders are released by the
containers are often developed at these HPA system. Serotonin, norepinephrine and
patients. Other anxiety disorders like dopamine are the three hormones that are
phobias, panic disorder and important. So norepinephrine is a stress
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) hormone, serotonin is involved with both
have been associated with bulimia and well-being and appetite and dopamine is
anorexia. involved in reward-seeking behavior. Low
At people with eating disorders, levels of leptin, a hormone that appears
especially anorexia, depression is to trigger the hypothalamus to stimulate
present which is more severe in darker appetite have been observed in people
winter months. Also the patients with with anorexia and bulimia.
bulimia suffer from a specific form of The reproductive hormones that are
bulimia which is worse in winter. May severely depleted in anorexics are
seems to be the peak month for suicide produced by the hypothalamic-pituitary
because the onset of anorexia appears to system. Some experts believe that these
peak in this month. An eating disorder is reproductive abnormalities are a result
rarely cured by treating and relieving of anorexia and others have shown that
depression. Social, psychologic or menstrual disturbances occurred before
possibly biologic factors can cause a severe malnutrition set in and remained a
distorted view of one's body called body problem long after weight gain in 30% to
dysmorphic disorder which can be 50% of people with anorexia.
associated with anorexia or bulimia but There are many factors who contribute at
can also appear without any eating development of anorexia. Unfortunately
disorder. In this case emotional teenage females are the most affected.




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