They are mental disorders characterized by the presence of serious disturbances in eating behavior. The most common disorders are known and anorexia and bulimia.

These diseases have become a real problem by the number of youths and adolescents to suffer. The cause is an obsessive desire for thinness, understanding it as a synonym for beauty.

En In recent times, governments, or even some fashion-related businesses are becoming aware of the problem. It tries to counteract the image of the models that have been excessively thin prototype of beauty for years.

Causes

The reasons are varied and not think that there is a single identifiable cause. It is believed that rather are a set of factors that predispose a person to suffer such alterations.

Statistics show that affect a greater proportion of women. The age of greatest impact is usually somewhere between 14-15 years and 24-25 years.

Traits of patients

Algunos de los rasgos personales que se cree predisponen a padecer estos trastornos son los siguientes: Some of the personal traits that predispose is believed to suffer these disorders are as follows:

·  Reaching adolescence overweight, which can cause complex.

·  Persons responsible perfectionists and, in many cases also good students. They tend to be difficult to deal with failure.

·  People with low self-esteem. Although, for example, the concept of good students themselves is the continued failure.

·  They need to have perception of control over something and choose to control their weight and everything related to food.

Influence of fashion

The influence of society is considered one of the main causes of the increase in these disorders among the population. In the media identifies the success with the physical beauty and thinness with it.

Many see the source of this growing problem on the excessive weight and fashion trends have in today's society obsessed by the cult of the body. Given that the prototype of beauty to emulate that has been enacted is the women too thin.

Families overprotection

The family environments are considered too demanding by some psychologists as a risk factor for that person suffers from a nervous disorder at some point in their lives.

In other cases the children do not show ability in solving problems or can be easily integrated into its environment so that their families protect them with excessive caution. This can make them people with little ability to accept setbacks and frustrations.

Treatment

Treatment for eating disorders should be the result of joint action by various specialists. The first thing is to replenish health, correct the effects of malnutrition and settle damage or disease derivatives.

But it also requires the intervention of a psychologist because it is necessary to amend various thoughts and attitudes of patients. To make this possible, the patient should work with the specialist and be able to recognize that you have a problem.

Psychological Help

Among the tasks to be performed by the psychologist include:

·  Modifying distorted perceptions that the individual has his appearance.

·  Raising the levels of self-esteem.

·  Correcting the concept of normal weight and desired.

·  Solving the problems of anxiety and the need for self that often accompany the disease.

·  Correcting the values we overestimate the physical aspect, considering the main attribute of a person.