Bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa and annorexia nervosa are linked together because some people suffering from annorexia nervosa not only starve themselves, if they eat something which they will then regret and feel bad about it is common for anorexics to make themself vomit to get rid of the food.

Common question

Do people who suffer from anorexia nervosa die?
It's sad but it's true. People who suffer from anorexia nervosa are usually very scared of going to doctors to be weighed etc. Most sufferers don't even realize that they're suffering from anorexia nervosa and think they're just dieting, yet sufferers can become very sensitive and often try to avoid talking about eating and excersize. Eventually, if they don't get help then more than likely they will end up dieing

Physical effects

Anorexia nervosa effects sufferers a lot from the outside, as well as the inside. These are just some.

- Extreme weight loss
- Stunted growth
- Thinning of the hair
- Constantly feeling cold
- Tooth decay
- Dry skin
- Dry or chapped lips
- Headaches
- Bruising easily
- Difficulty concentrating
- Slowing of the growth rate of breasts
- Low blood pressure (fainting)
- Constipation
- Amenorrhea
- Pallid complexion and sunken eyes
- Widespread body pain

Different types of eating disorders

There are many different eating disorders which relate to anorexia nervosa. Here is 1 of them.

Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatoy behaviours. The most common form, practised by more than 75% is self induced vomiting. The use of laxatives and over excersizing are also common.

What is anorexia nervosa?
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body weight commonly through the means of voluntary starvation, excessive excersize, or other weight control measures such as diet pills. While the condition primarily affects adolescent females approximatly 10% are male.

How does anorexia nervosa affect sufferers?

Behavioral
- Self harm, Bobba attempts
- Very sensitive towards body weight
- Agressive if forced to eat
- Secretive about eating/excersize
- Fatining
- Becomes antisocial

Emotional
- Low self esteem
- Phobia of becoming overweight
- Depression or low moods

Psychological
- Perfectionism
- Refuse to accept their weight is low
- Pre-occupation
- Obsessive compulsive disorder

Pro-ana

Pro-ana reffers to the promotion of anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder. It is often referred to simply as 'ana' and is sometimes affectionately personified by anorexics as a girl named Ana. They force themselves to loose weight as a challenge, not a psychiatric disorder. As encouragement to loose wieght, they often exchange thinspiration (or thinspo) which is images or videos of slim people, often celebrities.