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If you're suffering from anorexia, you need anorexia treatments NOW. Your anorexia is an illness that is slowly destroying your body. Your illness is taking over your life, perhaps hurting the people closest to you as well as yourself. You can feel its power over you, and you know it's time to break this bond, but you don't know how. Recovery Connection is here to help you – call 1-800-99-DETOX and get help now!
Anorexia is an eating disorder, generally occurring in young women that are characterized by a distorted body image, a fear of obesity, weight gain and an unwillingness to eat. The drive to become thinner or weigh less is actually secondary to the fear associated with loss of control and fears associated with your body. You continue to restrict your food intake, often to the point of starvation, in order to feel a sense of control over your body. This obsession is similar to that of an individual with a drug addiction or an alcohol abuse problem.
The issue of body image is quite complex. Regardless of your weight, you tend to see yourself as being fat. As such, you continue to starve yourself in order that you might "see" yourself as thin. The problem here is when you reach the "number" or desired weight, you may still feel overweight and in need of further weight loss. You view the loss of weight as a success and the gaining of weight as a defeat. You associate your weight with your self worth or self esteem. The lower your weight the better you tend to feel about yourself. Unfortunately the feeling is short lived.
Below are a few questions to help you determine if you are suffering from anorexia:
- Do you have an intense fear of gaining weight, even when underweight?
- Do you have an intense fear of becoming fat, even when underweight?
- Do you refuse to maintain body weight appropriate to age, height etc.?
- Do you deny the seriousness of low body weight?
- Do you have a problem or distortion in the way you view your body?
- If you are a woman who has not yet gone through menopause, have you experienced the absence of 3 menstrual cycles?
If you've answered, "yes," to any of these questions, you may have a problem with anorexia and may be in need of anorexia treatment.
Many people in need of anorexia treatment may:
- Have dry or thinning hair
- Experience the absence of menstruation
- Appear to have lost weight and be too thin
- Be secretive about their eating
- Try to eat alone
- Grow thin hair all over their body (the result of starvation)
- Eat in a ritualistic manner (cutting food into small pieces, taking small bites, being quiet at meal times, chewing very slowly)
- Prepare meals for others, but not eat it themselves
- Appear to be very faint (the result of starvation)
- Possess extensive information about nutrition
Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychiatric illness. Starvation causes major organs to shut down. Heart attack is the most common causes of death, while osteoporosis is another danger of anorexia. Low calcium intake is part of the problem, but the development of amenorrhea prevents the body from absorbing the calcium.
To locate an anorexia treatment program that is able to assist you with anorexia recovery, call Recovery Connection now at 1-800-99-DETOX. To learn more about eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating, please visit http://www.edtreatmentcenters.com.
Anorexia Treatment Centers:
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- Delaware
- District of Columbia
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- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
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- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
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- Minnesota
- Mississippi
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- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
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- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
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- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
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- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
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- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, D.C.
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
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If your state doesn't appear on this list, please call Recovery Connection at 1-800-99-DETOX and we will be happy to assist you.
