Psychological symptoms of anorexia

Anorexia nervosa falls within the eating disorders, along with bulimia and vigorexia. Its most visible symptom is the progressive weight loss of the person suffering from it, until reaching a Pathological thinness that causes great problems in the body at a physical level, and can end in the death.

But anorexia not only affects the body, it is accompanied by a series of psychological symptoms which are what make it difficult for patients to overcome the disease if it is not with a specific psychological treatment.

Index

1. Distortion of body image perception
2. Character change
3. Obsessive traits
4. Search for perfection

It is perhaps the most acute symptom and the one that pushes patients to eat the least amount of food possible. Intimately linked to it is the denial that they make of their illnesssince your brain omits objective information derived from scales, medical tests, etc.

Those with anorexia they are becoming more withdrawn, especially because they avoid all social events that are related to food. They also become more irritable, making their dealings with others increasingly difficult.

Appear compulsive rituals at mealtime or prepare food. Little by little his whole world is obsessively focused on everything related to nutrition and weight, physical exercise, slimming products, etc., so that his world is gradually reduced to little.

They try it through their own body and when they do not achieve it (they never reach that ideal that is in their brain) they feel a great frustration leading to depression that is usually accompanied by a great sense of failure and emptiness.

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