Tuesday, November 6, 2007

~*~Eating Disorders Essay~*~


Eating disorders causes Physical, Emotional, and Social problems to your body. For example organs in your body get really messed up. Your body wont react the same and will start changing also your mentality. Emotional problems will then show and can take you through depression. One example would be isolation and difficulty concentrating on anything. Eating disorders not only affects you physically or emotionally but also socially too. This causes relationship problems with people or family. These are some of the things that will affect your body with anorexia or other eating disorders.
Anorexia affects your hole body Physically, from outside through inside your system. For example affects your brain and nerves, heart, hair, skin and hormones. It affects your brain and nerves by not being able to think right, the fearing of gaining weight and also being more moody and sad all times. Being anorexic your heart has low blood pressure and slow heart rate. Also hair gets thin and brittle. your skin gets really dry and fine hair grows all over your body, you also get cold easily and your skin turns yellow being anorexic. Another thing that affects your body will be hormones. It affects it by having trouble getting pregnant, periods stopping and if pregnant having higher risk of miscarriage. Your body changes totally and can be really hard to recuperate.
Eating Disorders messes up your self-esteem emotionally. Your only thinking you are fat and think the only way to loose weigh is dieting. You start telling your self you want to be thin and not eating will help you, but actually its killing you. This causes you to feel really depressed because you always feel isolation aether from friends or family. It affects you by not being able to concentrate on anything besides 0n how you look. You also start feeling emotional regression to a child like state. When you are in the emotional state it can take you through drugs and alcohol. Anorexics get really obsessed with weight that it affects their mind by only thinking if people are looking at them or in loosing weight. You also start feeling guilty for anything. For example when you are an anorexic you always avoid eating but you still get really hungry, you eat something and after you ate it you tell your self "oh that has many calories why did i ate it this is going to get me fat" then thats when you harm your self to vomit. Eating disorders really kills your body.
Eating disorders not only affects you Physically or emotionally, but socially too. Thats when you start feeling really lonely. You start feeling no one will ever want you because on how you look. It affects you because you feel your worth nothing and feel afraid no one will ever look at you. Socially and emotionally you start feeling sad and moody all times, thats when problems start with eather family or realitionships. Social problems can be really hard for anyone who suffers from any eating disorders because friends and family are the most important people in someones life.
Eventhough eating disorders is a big problem and it can take you to death it can be cured. People with eating disorders have a hard time accepting they are anorexics or bulimics, before starting a treatment they have to accept they have a problem. Recovery is not easy it can take about seven to ten or even more years. A recovery consists in treating a counselor or counselor. Not every person get treated other people will refuse to accept they have issues.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You have lots of great details, and you've organized your topic clearly-- good work. I would like you to cite your sources(s) though-- where did you find this information?
Thanks!
Ms. H