The popular saying “Faces we see, hearts we know not“, must not only be used in relation to sympathy or not between two people in their social life and in love. It can also be established as a point of comparison between what you know or think you know about yourself, a friend or a co-worker. Nervous bulimia is a disorder that, if not treated in time, can lead to very dangerous consequences, including death.
Sometimes silence, in addition to meaning intimacy or secrecy, can bring a pain or a fear that starts from the very acceptance as an individual or a rejection before society. There are theories that say that diseases begin in our mind and over time, they affect our body.
Nervous bulimia, as it is defined, is basically an eating disorder characterized by the continuous intake of large quantities of food in a short period of time. Additionally, those who suffer from this situation has the certainty of not having the appropriate body weight. For this reason, their concern is raised and the patient will try to lose weight under any circumstance.
One condition that people who suffer from bulimia present is that they feel and look fat. This idea about their body is totally wrong and distorted, since our body weight should be based on our height. A sense of guilt overwhelms patients with bulimia, who will be permanently dissatisfied with themselves and will fear to gain weight.
However, they are not able to control their impulses to devour all the food on their way. This way of eating leads to feelings of guilt, which makes them vomit the food they ate to avoid gaining weight and losing the figure that they have achieved with so much effort.
This type of condition is more frequent among young people from 17 to 18 years of age, easily influenced by the media or friends, and, although less frequently, it can also happen in adulthood. The “popular girl” of the moment can suffer these types of consequences that must be addressed.
For the head of psychiatry at the Clinical and Provincial Hospital of Barcelona, Dr. Josep Toro, detecting this disorder that brings dangerous consequences is sometimes more difficult to detect than anorexia, since in the first, there is no significant change in the figure of the patients, some are even overweight.
The only way to detect a person with bulimia, says Toro, is to catch him/her while he/she is vomiting or when he/she is taking some type of laxative liquid or pills. Otherwise, it is practically impossible to find out.
Once the bulimia has been detected, the Spanish specialist points out that there are two types of therapeutic approaches with favorable effectiveness: pharmacological and psychotherapeutic.
If you have a teenager at home, pay attention to his/her nutritional and social behavior. In their period of rebellion it is common to see a young woman denying the symptoms and hiding the truth.
ALFA