They are the two most common eating disorders. The number of people affected by them has grown in modern society because of a fashion characterized by the search for an extreme thinness.

Most patients are young women or teenagers who sacrifice their health and vitality to achieve despite increasingly less. Both diseases are serious and may cause distortion of perceptions that the patients are still always big.

Anorexia

It is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession to lose weight by monitoring extreme diets in triggering lengthy fasts. Popularly known simply by the name of anorexia.

People who suffer from anorexia experiencing a marked weight loss. They have distorted perceptions of themselves and are always fat. They reject the voluntary food intake and feel intense fear to gain weight.

These symptoms are usually accompanied by others such as irritability, insomnia, excessive exercise, lack of concentration, social isolation, feeling cold and sometimes consumption of diuretics and laxatives.

The physical harm that may result from these disorders can range from dry skin to the loss of menstruation temporary or permanent, hair loss and the presence of dizziness or lipotimias frequent.

If not subjected to treatment can cause irreparable damage, resulting from malnutrition, which threaten the life of the patient.

Bulimia

It is an eating disorder that is characterized by excessive intake of food followed by repentance that leads to induce vomiting, laxatives or consuming practice prolonged fasting until next atracón.Usually called only with the term bulimia.

The symptoms are getting hours of a meal, the fact eat with anxiety and compulsive manner at times, mood changes, concern about weight loss and habit of going to the bathroom to vomit after eating.

Although in some cases the appearance of these people is healthier than in the case of anoréxicas, who may suffer physical disorders are similar. It adds further potential injury arising from the stomach causing frequent vomiting and increased decay or even loss of some pieces by the progressive deterioration.

Differences between anorexia and bulimia

People anoréxicas avoid everything possible ingestion of food. People bulimic, however, there are frequent binge in the food they eat compulsively full of calories.

The presence of vomiting or use of laxatives and diuretics in anoréxicas is a complement to their fasting. The bulimic this is part of the circle in which they move ranging from atracón, vomiting and fasting.

There are patients who show symptoms of both. There are also cases in which one emerges as a result of the other. For example a person who suffers from bulimia if dominated by periods of fasting, will come to anorexia.

Another factor is that usually the look and weight of bulimic people can be more normal. They also easy to detect sudden changes in weight, while in the anoréxicas always lose weight.

Distorted Perceptions

It is a psychological disorder that is found both in anoréxicas as the bulimic. This is false perceptions about their own bodies. No hallucinations because they are part of real things as they are.

The alteration is in having a vision of its size increased. No matter how thin they are, still have a conception of themselves obese people.

Perceptions that an individual is very important because it marks the facts about which he or she lives and works. and works. If a person is believed failed, but not to be, acts and feels like a failure.

Therefore, one of the tasks of psychologists with people who suffer from anorexia or bulimia is to transform their perceptions so they can change their behavior.

Eat compulsively

These people eat too much and without control. The food can become a source of obsession. One of the most common eating disorders at present.

Normally seen in the food half to calm the anxiety that endured for any reason unrelated to food. to food. This disorder causes obesity and the problems that stem from it as a physical clumsiness or hypertension.

Ortorexia

People who suffer from it are obsessed by the healthy food and healthy. This behavior initially positive becomes a constant and unchanging idea, which can have serious disorders.

Dejan eating products essential to the body. In many cases they give to the intake of any kind of fat and just suffer diseases of malnutrition.

Worth noting

In addition to these disorders there are other unknown or more recent coinage including the following:

·  Potomanía: fluids, usually water, and disproportionately without having thirst.