Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Overeating

There are three (maybe also more) different eating disorders, there are anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and over eating.

Over eating can come if you are sad or something, and then you start eating your sadness away. In that way you get a good feeling inside, so when you are sad your body says you need food to get the sadness disappear. It can also be if you eat too much in a period and then you almost don’t eat anything in the next period. And this you will do until you don’t have that eating disorder anymore.

Bulimia nervosa is when you just have eaten something then you go out and throw it up because you have this feeling that you have ate too much. You will not lose that much weight when you do this, but if you do it for many years you will lose weight. Some people with bulimia nervosa can get problems with nails, hair and teeth.

Anorexia nervosa is when your body weight is at least 15% lower than it should be. You are afraid of eating because you are scared that you will get ``fat´´ and you do a lot of sport. You can’t see by yourself that you are underweight, and you won’t admit it, although people tell you. Anorexia can lead to more severe physical complications such as you don’t grow as normal, osteoporosis, lack of menstruation and fertility, impotence for the men, lack of sexual maturation at onset of disease before puberty and death. And if it is really bad you may be admitted to the hospital.