22.Low self-esteem Feeling worthless. Often putting themselves down and complaining of being "too stupid" or "too fat" and saying they don't matter. Need for acceptance and approval from others.
23.Complaints of often feeling cold.
24.Low blood pressure.
25.Loss of menstraul cycle.
26.Constipation or incontinence.
27.Bruised or calluses knuckles; bloodshot or bleeding in the eyes; light bruising under the eyes and on the cheeks.
28.Perfectionistic personality.
29.Loss of sexual desire or promiscuous relationships.
30.Mood swings. Depression. Fatigue.
31.Insomnia. Poor sleeping habits.
Compulsive Overeating/Binge Eating Disorder
1.Fear or not being able to control eating, and while eating, not being able to stop.
2.Isolation. Fear of eating around and with others.
3.Chronic dieting on a variety of popular diet plans.
4.Holding the belief that life will be better if they can lose weight.
5.Hiding food in strange places (closets, cabinets, suitcases,under the bed) to eat at a later time.
6.Vague or secretive eating patterns.
7.Self-defeating statements after food consumption.
8.Blamees failure in social and proffessional community on wieght.
9.Holds belief that food is their only friend.
10.Frequebtly out of breath after relatively light activites.
11.Excessive sweating and shortness of breath.
12.High blood pressure and/or cholesterol.
13.Leg and joint pain.
14.Weight gain.
15.Decreased mobility due to weight gain.
16.Loss of sexual desire or promiscuous relationships.
17.Mood swings. Depression. Fatigue.
18. Insomnia. Poor sleeping habits.
Both Anorexia and Bulimia..........
There are many similarities in both illnesses, the most common being the cause. There seems to be a common occurence of sexual and/or physical and emotional abuse in direct relation to eating disorders (though not all people living with eating disorders are survivors of abuse). There also seems to be a direct connection in some people with clinical depression. The eating disorder sometimes causes the depression or sometimes the depression causes the eating disorder. All in all, eating disorders are very complex emotional issues--though they may seem to be nothing more than a dangerously obsessive weight concern of the surface. FOR MOST MEN AND WOMEN SUFFERING WITH AN EATING DISORDER THERE ARE DEEPER EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS TO BE RESOLVED.
Diagnostic Criteria
The following is cnsidered the "text book" defintioin of Anorexia Nervosa to assist doctors in making a clinical diagnosis...... it is in on way on how the sufferer feels or experiences in living with the illness. It is important to realize that you can still suffer from the illness even if one of the below symptoms is not present.
1.Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal wieght for age and height (excample: weight loss leading to maintenance of body wieght less the 85% of that expected;or failure to make expected wieght gain during period of growth, ;eading to body weight less then 85% of that expected).
2.Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight .
3.Disturbance in the way in which one's shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evalutation, or denial of serioussness of the current low body weight.
4. In postmeacheal fmales (women who have not yet gone through menopause), amenorrhea (the absence of at least three consectutive menstrual cycles).
RESTRICTING TYPE: during the time of Anorexia, the person has not reguluarly engaged in binge-eating or purging behaviour (excample: self-induced vomiting)
BINGE-EATING TYPE OR PURGING TYPE: during the time of Anorexia, the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating OR purging behaviour (excample: misuse of laxatives).