Anorexia
The majority of women are dissatisfied with their figure. But for some of them this discontent turns into a disease. Exhaustive diet and hard physical exercises make girls look awfully slim, but they still think that they are too thick. This is a serious disease and it is called anorexia. The most widespread type of this disease is neuropsychic anorexia. In this case a person consciously refuses to consume food in order to slim.
Statistics show that the most vulnerable and liable group to anorexia is the group of teenaged girls. Everything starts with an obsessive idea about overweight and the necessity to lose it. Control of weight becomes the main life goal for them. This is an unsuccessful and life-threatening way to solve their problems. To achieve this goal girls limit themselves to food or give up food at all and do intense physical exercises. In addition, they use different medicines for weight loss.
Sometimes, when these girls find it impossible to practice long-term exhaustive diets, girls eat or even overeat, but then provoke artificial vomiting.
The very desire to lose weight is not a disease in itself. But when the normal desire to look good turns into mania, we can diagnose anorexia.
Everything starts unnoticeably. Initially food restrictions are episodic. Teenagers exclude only those food products which seem the most nutritious to them and show an unusual interest in the calories of various foodstuffs. Later correction of unnecessary overweight becomes increasingly persistent.
The weight goes down rapidly and first mental disorders appear. They are characterised by frequent change of mood, obtrusive desire to see themselves in the mirror for a long time, etc.
Their state continues to worsen. Painful conviction in excessive fullness leads them to a desire to get rid of this shortcoming. In the majority of cases, this fullness is imaginary, and the idea of weight loss is absolutely absurd, and this state is the initial stage in the development of a more serious and irreversible mental illness.