What is anorexia psychosis?

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Anorexia nervosa (an) is a kind of eating disorder characterized by the fact that individuals intentionally cause and maintain their weight significantly lower than the normal standard through diet and other means. It belongs to the category of "physiological disorders related to psychological factors" in the field of psychiatry. What is anorexia psychosis? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What is anorexia psychosis?

An patients are not really anorexic, but in order to achieve the so-called "slim" and starve, their appetite has always existed. Patients begin to diet or lose weight in order to control weight and keep slim. The common method is to limit eating, in order to limit the daily calories, usually eat very little; There are also after eating pick vomiting or vomiting, excessive physical exercise, abuse of laxatives, weight loss drugs and so on.

Patients with an have cognitive distortion of their body image and pay too much attention to their body shape and weight. Although they are the same as most people, even very thin, they still insist that they are very obese. Patients with an also showed abnormal cognition of their gastrointestinal stimulation and somatic feelings, denying hunger and fatigue; They also lack a correct understanding of their own emotional states, such as anger and depression. Denial is another prominent feature of the disease,

An can be accompanied by depressive mood, emotional instability, social withdrawal, irritability, insomnia, decreased or lack of sexual interest, obsessive-compulsive symptoms. It can also be manifested as excessive attention to eating in public places, often a sense of incompetence, excessive restrictions on their own active emotional expression. 10% - 20% of an patients admitted to stealing food; 30% - 50% of the patients had paroxysmal bulimia.

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Many girls, they are likely to have a diet idea, but in fact, excessive diet is really bad for the body, and will cause long-term malnutrition, anemia, and even hypoglycemia. If you have anorexia, you must let yourself eat, otherwise it will be more and more serious.