Types of you disorder nutritious

it is a term used to describe a wide variety of irregularities in the nutritious behavior, and that he/she can or not to adjust to a diagnosis of a specific nutritious disorder as nervous anorexy or nervous bulimia. The subject with this class of patterns of nutritious disorders cannot be diagnosed with a nutritious disorder specific ("category of nutritious disorders that don't enter in the approaches of some specific nutritious disorder."

A change in the patterns of the feeding can be caused by other mental disorders (e.g. clinical depression), or for factors that are generally not considered related with the mental thing (e.g. illness of the extreme home).


The nervous anorexy is a dysfunction of the alimentary behavior. Their clinical definition says that he/she settles down as main characteristic the self-induced loss of weight, caused by a pathological concern by the form and the weight of the own body that later is manifested by means of the excessive control of the ingesta of foods. A progressive loss of the desire takes place of eating and of the sensation of necessity. It is usually presented in the adolescence (14-18años of age) but in other cases in later ages (20-40 years of age). he/she Usually appears in the women, but masculine cases are also given.

We should analyze their characteristics from the following perspectives:

* Regarding the nutritious habits, people anoréxicas diminish total or partially the consumption of foods, they select them and they observe that they are those that help to the reduction of the weight. They end up carrying out registration newspaper of the consumed calories and they show an obsessive behavior for the foods, also, in some cases, they have tendency to eat the same thing every day in order to maintain a maximum state of autocontrol.

* The behavior of people that you/they suffer this dysfunction is similar in most of the cases. They become people that lie to people that surround him, constantly usually to the family, as method to avoid the foods. With reason of accelerating the process of loss of corporal, very quick weight at the beginning, and since it descends in speed, they practice physical exercise in excess and they take laxatives and diuretics. They show great interest for the gastronomy and in feeding people of their environment well, since they come it like a victory “they eat and me not, for what they put on weight and I lose weight”. as the illness is developed, they become introverted and reserved people, the whole time far from all social contact fearing that the situation forces them to eat almost pass or because its dream of thinness consumes them the whole time and they don't want to share it with anybody.

* As for the characteristic cognitivas (those that have to do with the reasoning, the understanding or the knowledge) it is considered that in the nervous anorexy it exists a sobrevaloración of the importance that has the corporal form, for what is looked for in an insatiable way the weigh loss. The own distorted corporal image is perceived, that is to say, bigger of that than it is really. They can suffer depression, perturbed of light to serious, anxiety, groundless sadness, irrational thoughts and habits of physical autolesión.