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Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
As we go on in life we have to deal with different kinds of situations and problems that sometimes are very shocking. A person that has been through a very traumatic and shocking experience can have a post traumatic stress disorder and it needs certain treatments.

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Category: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment
Post traumatic stress disorder can be simply described as a human mind response to the trauma. Any catastrophic event that eventually disturbs the entire course of a person's life can cause trauma and mental agony. Every person, who experiences a trauma, also gets affected due to the stress created by the shock. While some people recover quickly from the disturbances, some others have a deeper impact on their minds resulting in disturbed psychological symptoms and impaired functioning. Such psychiatric conditions that develop following a trauma are together known as post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

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Category: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Identifying Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms
Anorexia nervosa is eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Anorexia nervosa is a serious, often chronic, and life-threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain minimal body weight within 15 percent of an individual's normal weight. Persons with this disorder may have an intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image. Inadequate eating or excessive exercising results in severe weight loss. Other essential features of this disorder include an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and amenorrhea. In fact, people with anorexia nervosa ignore hunger and thus control their desire to eat. This desire is frequently sublimated through cooking for others or hiding food that they will not eat in their personal space. Anorexia nervosa usually occurs in adolescence or young adulthood. It is more common in females. People with anorexia nervosa usually lose weight by reducing their total food intake and exercising excessively. Anorexia is also linked to reduced blood flow in the temporal lobes, although since this finding does not correlate with current weight, it is possible that it is a risk trait rather than an effect of starvation.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Predictors of Treatment Outcome for Anorexia Nervosa
Predictors of poor outcome for anorexia nervosa include longer duration of illness and the presence of vomiting. In more recent studies, researchers found that eating disorder duration did not predict outcome. They also found that the duration of the illness was not related to treatment outcome. However, others found that the outcome of treatment could be determined by the duration of the disorder in anorexia nervosa. Many of these studies, conducted by well-known researchers, are contradictory. In my opinion I do not think that researchers have found the methods with which to predict treatment outcome with any certainty. They are using the obvious etiological factors but there are many things still undiscovered about these disorders.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Developmental Factors Regarding the Causes of Anorexia Nervosa
Because anorexia nervosa typically begins during adolescence, developmental issues are thought to play an important etiological role. Researchers have found early eating conflicts such as struggles with food and unpleasant memories surrounding meals. Most authors agree that the challenges during adolescence include the need to establish independence, a well-defined personal identity, fulfilling relationships, and clear values and principles to govern one's life.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Isabel Caro Is A Brave Young Woman - Her 13 Year Struggle With Anorexia May Save Lives
Is it enough to go to such extremes as having a poster campaign, which was launched in Italy on Monday, September 24th 007, in the campaign for awareness of Anorexia. Will it have the right impact on society?

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Anorexia Nervosa Recovery And The BAR Cycle
Anorexia Nervosa is a serious condition that can lead to starvation and death. There are different beliefs as to the nature of the condition, being physical, mental, or even an addiction, because it has characteristics of all. While professional diagnosis and treatment are essential in genuine anorexia cases, much can be accomplished on a self-help basis to ease the symptoms and aid in the recovery. This article will discuss the nature of the condition, traditional treatment and self-help using the BAR Cycle.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Anorexia - From a 'Former' Anorexic's Point of View
How do you explain to people why you suddenly decide to stop eating? Why can't other people see you the way you see yourself?

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Celebrities With Eating Disorders
It is bad to see so many celebrities having eating disorders, since so many of them choose not to eat. I have a lot of celebrity friends and they totally agree with me that celebrities are not sending out the right message to young fans and teenagers.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

The Eating Disorders You Don't Know About
Many people are very familiar with the two most well-known eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia. But did you know there are other eating disorders that are not as well known to the public? People, who have lived the nightmare of waking up in the middle of the night hungry, but refusing to eat, or eating enough for five grown men, but purging it all immediately afterward, can relate to all of the disorders out there that plague their suffering counterparts. But if you're not aware of other little-known disorders, including compulsive overeating, diabulimia and orthorexia nervosa, you might be surprised that they have just as much of an effect on society as the two we most know about.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

What Causes Anorexia - Dying To Be Thin
Have you ever seen a picture of an anorexia nervosa patient? If yes then you might have immediately judged his or her sickness, as the image reflects someone who is skinny and pale. Someone who has never suffered from anorexia will not understand the critical aspect of the situation and comprehend how he or she actually looks. Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological disorder associated to bad eating habits or starvation and it is best known as an eating disorder. Anorexia is caused due to prolonged eating disorder. This is generally identified as a craze for slimness and generally people adapt to it as the easiest way to thin. This they believe helps them to find a place for themselves in social and cultural groups. The average onset age of anorexia nervosa is generally 17 years and found maximum in females who want to be called ‘perfect figured’ or the “IN THING”. In medical language, anorexia nervosa increases the adiponectin plasma levels and reduces the nonoxidative glucose metabolism.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Help For Eating Disorders - 3 Tips
Eating disorder is really a very common problem these days, thanks to the fast lifestyle that we are leading. It is a fact that people of any and all ages are susceptible to stomach problems. While there are many causes behind eating disorders, one of the main causes is stress. If you are suffering from high levels of anxiety and stress, then it is no surprise that you are having eating disorders. And even if you lead a stress-free life, it is important to know that even the most insignificant things can cause eating disorders. In this article I will tell you how to get rid of your eating disorders in two easy ways.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

A Look At Anorexia
Most people with anorexia do not want to gain weight. They have an unrealistic view of their bodies and feel much pride in their ability to restrict intake or over exercise. As some research has shown, the desire to not have a body that is sexual, meaning lack of regular menses, small breasts as a result of being underweight and achieving a boyish figure is at the root of many anorexics psyche.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Anorexia, Bulimia, and Depression - Is There A Cure?
Many of those suffering from anorexia and bulimia are high-functioning adults coping with stress, anxiety, and depression. They may have tried many different solutions to their problem. This article explores the typical experiences of a few people suffering from such eating disorders. Most therapists today deal with these disorders by first treating the underlying causes of the body-image problems. These causes are assumed to be past experiences and how they may have affected us.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Effects of Bulimia Nervosa
Effects of bulimia can be divided into long term and short term side effects. Also you can then subdivide the side effects of bulimia to correspond with the system or the organs bulimia affects: e.g. psychological problems, mental, gastro-intestinal, cardio-vascular system, kidney, skin, bones and hormonal problems.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Strategies for Women with Eating Disorders During the Holidays - Or Help Me!
Eating disorders are chronic, stress related conditions and what time of the year is more stressful than the holidays? Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years. This time of year is all about the food no matter what cultural or ethnic background a person comes from. For women who are still struggling with eating disorders and depression, the holidays bring up many different kinds of stressors.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Think You Can't Beat Eating Disorders?
There Eating disorders is one of the most misunderstood disorders that plaque's millions of people throughout the world every year. This disease is sometimes called the silent killer as many times it can go undetected for many years before even family and friends realize something is wrong. There are many different eating disorders but we will concentrate on the more popular ones and some tips to help you beat them.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Successful Anorexia Nervosa Treatment Recovery
We are exposed every day to thousands of advertisements of junk food and also to skinny good looking models that we want to like. The problem with this paradigm is that while we are eating more junk food, we want to have a skinny body like the models and actresses.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Mom, Please Help - A True Anorexia - Bulimia Story - Part 1
Well, I guess it was 11 years ago I started to notice something was not right with Amy. She had just turned 13 when I caught her always looking at herself in the mirror. She would ask me if I thought she put on weight. I told her of course not, she always looked just right for her age.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

Mom, Please Help - A True Anorexia - Bulimia Story - Part 2
After major disappointment at school when she failed to be picked to perform in the Christmas extravaganza Amy was inconsolable she screamed and yelled and cried and cried. I tried to console her by saying there is always next year, it was not your fault you were sick, but nothing could make her stop being upset.

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Category: Anorexia & Bulimia

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