Anorexia

Anorexia is a mental disorder characterized by loss of appetite and a strong desire to lose weight. This disease negatively affects a person's physical and mental health, as well as his relationships with other people. However, anorexia can also be caused by psychological factors such as depression or anxiety.

Symptoms of anorexia may include

Anorexia (from ancient Greek ἀν- - “against-” + οὖρος - “appetite”) is a syndrome in which there is a loss of body weight of at least 20% of the original for at least three months due to a reduction in food intake or refusal to eat (but without concomitant fat loss), which occurs without therapeutic measures. The syndrome can lead to death. May develop in childhood. Anorexia may be accompanied by bulimia nervosa. Both anorexia and bulimia nervosa are restrictive eating disorders. Meet

Anorexia is a neuropsychic disorder manifested by persistent and prolonged refusal to eat as a result of dissatisfaction with one’s own body, fatness or shape. It is assumed that anorexia occurs due to mental disorders or a serious endocrine disease.

Quite slender and healthy people refuse food, but those who are convinced of their inferiority due to excess weight or poor body shape, most often caused by a conflict of opposing ideas about themselves and the body image that is imposed by society. Refusal to eat is a protective reaction of the body against standards imposed by society - it is a psychological inability to accept existing ideas about female beauty.

Thus, anorexia is a kind of means of ridding a person of internal

"Anorexia: how to prevent the disease and maintain health"

A few words about the disease...

Anorexia is an excessive restriction of food by a person to the point of lack of appetite or leading to a significant loss of body weight (<18,5 кг/м²). Она не является редким явлением и часто встречается среди молодых женщин. Нередко анорексию можно наблюдать у подростков и юношей. Помимо психического расстройства такое поведение приводит к истощению организма, заболеваниям внутренних органов, нервной и эндокринной систем.

**There are several types of anorexia:**

1. Anorexia nervosa - in this case, a person independently deprives himself of food, bringing his body to the point of exhaustion. This is a dangerous form of the disease that can be fatal. 2. Disorderly anorexia - a person does not experience discomfort with large or small amounts of food and, however, still limits food intake. 3. Neuropsychic anorexia. While most people suffering from anorexia suffer from this disease during adolescence, the first signs of the neuropsychiatric form may appear after the age of 20. The harm of this condition lies in the fact that the patient completely refuses to eat on the basis of a diet, which causes irreparable damage to his body. 4. Symptomatic anorexia occurs due to the manifestation of somatic diseases, for example, the gastrointestinal tract. Due to disruption of the digestive system, the body loses weight, so many people stick to a diet. The patient himself may not even realize that there is a problem until the doctor refers him to the appropriate institution. There he will be given the correct diagnosis