Bulimia Nervosa

Bumilia Nervosa is another kind of eating disorder. It's often just called bulimia. Bulimia is when you eat a lot of food in a short amount of time. When the person eats a lot of food in a short amount of time it's called binging. After the person goes through the period of binging, they get the feeling of guilty and shame. When this happens the person tries undoing what they just did by sometimes just throwing up, exercising, or just not eating, this process is called purging. Bulimia is most similar to anorexia in some ways. People who are bulimic go through phychological depressions, anxiety like anorexic people. Some of the symptoms are chronically inflamed and sore throat, swollen glands in the neck and below the jaw, tooth enamel and gastroesophageal reflux disorder. This eating disorder sometimes is passed geneticly, or if theirs some one in the family that already went throught this disorder. Also if the female has had any sexual abuse there a possible chance that they can go through this disorder. The females that are mostly at risk for this are the white middle class womend, families with history of mood swings, or just some one who has very low self-esteem. This disorder can be treated with medicine, phychotheraphy, and family theraphy.

Anorexia Nervosa

What is Anorexia Nervosa? Anorexia Nervosa is often just called anorexia. This eating disorder is just one of the eating disorders there is. Anorexia is more than just not eating it's also a psychological disorder. It all begins as trying to loss weight, over time this so called "losing weight" becomes an endless cycle of restrictive eating, taking pills, exercising more than you need to just to lose weight. This also means that you can even starve yourself just because you have the sensation your fat. Researchers have yet not found a reason why people have this disorder, they think its inherited but they aren't sure. 95% of females are affected with this but males can also get this. Some symptoms and signs are noticeable weight loss, excessive exercise,fatigue, always being cold, muscle weakness, obsession with food, calories, and recipes, and irregular menstruation. There is an estimated 10 to 20 percent of the people that die from complications. Anorexics usually focus on losing weight and calories to block their feelings and emotions. For them its more simply to focus on losing weight then confronting their problems. And because of these anorexics have a low self-esteem, and think they don't deserve to eat. The only way you can help anorexics, is by them admiting they have a problem. Then they go trough psychological, nutrition, and medical care.