Digestive Disorders Guide

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Anorexia (deriving from the Greek “α(ν)-” (a(n)-, a prefix that denotes absence) + “όρεξη (orexe) = appetite) is the decreased sensation of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangeably with one of its causes, anorexia nervosa, there are many possible causes for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless while others pose significant risk for the person.

The most common form of anorexia is simply satiation following the consumption of food. This happens in all normal humans and is called postprandial anorexia. Disorders that cause (harmful) anorexia include anorexia nervosa, severe depression, cancer, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, dementia, AIDS, Acute Radiation Syndrome, and chronic renal failure and the use of certain drugs, particularly stimulants and narcotics such as cocaine and heroin. Environmentally induced disorders such as altitude sickness can also trigger an acute form of anorexia. Anorexia may also be seen in congestive heart failure, perhaps due to congestion of the liver with venous blood.

Although the presenting symptom (the one which prompts a patient to seek medical attention) in acute appendicitis is abdominal pain, patients virtually always experience anorexia as well, possibly accompanied by an early episode of vomiting.

Some medications, antidepressants for example, can have anorexia as a side effect. Most notoriously, however, chemicals that are a member of the phenethylamine family are known to have more intense anorectic properties. For this reason, many individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa may seek to use these medications to suppress appetite. Such prescription medications include Ritalin, Adderall, Dexedrine, and Desoxyn. In some cases, these medications are prescribed to patients prior to undergoing an operation requiring general anesthesia. This is a prophylactic measure taken to ensure no food will back up into the esophagus and cause the patient to stop breathing during the procedure.

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia are known to commonly control body weight through the means of voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It primarily affects adolescent females, however approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male. Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving psychological, neurobiological, and sociological components.[1]

The term anorexia is of Greek origin: a (α, prefix of negation), n (ν, link between two vowels) and orexis (ορεξις, appetite) thus meaning a lack of desire to eat.[2] A person who is diagnosed with anorexia nervosa is most commonly referred to with the adjectival form anorexic. The noun form, “anorectic” is generally not used in this context and usually refers to drugs that suppress appetite.

“Anorexia nervosa” is frequently shortened to “anorexia” in both the popular media and television reports. This is technically incorrect, as the term “anorexia” used separately refers to the medical symptom of reduced appetite (which therefore is distinguishable from anorexia nervosa in being non-psychiatric).

The most commonly used criteria for diagnosing anorexia are from the American Psychiatric ociation’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and the World Health Organization’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

Although biological tests can aid the diagnosis of anorexia, the diagnosis is based on a combination of behavior, reported beliefs and experiences, and physical characteristics of the patient. Anorexia is typically diagnosed by a clinical psychologist, psychiatrist or other suitably qualified clinician. Notably, diagnostic criteria are intended to ist clinicians, and are not intended to be representative of what an individual sufferer feels or experiences in living with the illness.

The full ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa can be found here, and the DSM-IV-TR criteria can be found here.

To be diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-IV-TR, a person must display:

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I strongly believe it is an addiction and even more difficult to control because food is a necessity, not like heroin or cocaine.

I truly believe that it's an addiction. Instead of being addicted to crack or cocaine, you have the food there as being more affordable than illegal drugs.

Complusive eating is on way a person may get rid of stress also. It's just another battle for someone to overcome.

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I am positive that I am COE, have been for too long a while now, and desperately need help!

Go to Overeaters Anonymous. Check out http://www.oagb.org.uk/ I hope there's a group in your area - it's a bit patchy, but there are online groups too. Recognising the issue and being willing to do something about it is a brilliant start and I'm sure you'll succeed if you attend OA group.

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Today’s teens face issues and problems that have a profound impact on their own and others’ lives. These books deal with difficult topics such as depression, anger, stress, eating disorders, suicide, panic disorder, and ADD and ADHD. Each book defines the problem, describes its effects, discusses dilemmas teens may face, and provides steps teens can take to move ahead. These books introduce and explore key concepts as defined by the National Health Education Standards and the National Standards for School Counseling Programs.

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Why do I compulsively overeat? I know what I should be doing to lose weight. But the drive to shovel food into my mouth is overwhelming. Anyone out there who has overcome this addition?

Some people eat to live and some people live to eat. I find myself being the live to eat kind of person. I don't know how to tell you to deal with this but I can tell you how I deal with it. I am 28 years old and almost 300lbs. But for the past 2 months I decided to do something about it. I find that when I am in my home or if I have nothing to do then I eat. Via- means I have allot of time on my hands. Soo what I decided to do was to invest my time into something productive. Walking with my kids, reading a book, volunteering my time to help others. Or if you are chronically busy and eat late at night, try eating 1/3 of what you are used to eating. It takes some getting use to. But I know if I can do it so can you. You just have to make up your mind, and have people that love and are there to support you. God Bless

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We read a lot about how to beat compulsive overeating, yet in those we know with this baffling condition, we see more of the “accordion effect” than any permanent resolution of obesity.

It’s become common knowledge that dieting doesn’t work, has lasting ill effects and supports weight gain in the long run. Still, new diets and Diet Gurus surface on a regular basis. It’s clear that the afflicted don’t want to give up and probably shouldn’t…so we have a huge industry around this complex problem.

Every once in a while we come across someone who has made it. The weight is off and has stayed off. What’s confusing is the “magic” that worked for one person is seldom what saved the next. And for most, there is no “magic.”

Groups that include a spiritual component have worked for some, but not all. A look at other groups suggests that shaming sometimes works. Weighing in front of everyone may support a temporarily slimming-down out of embarrassment. The operative word is “temporary.” One company even makes all your meals for you, asking for, but seldom getting, compliance.

Weight loss seminars are often well attended but not widely productive regarding any lasting effects. One plan advises a system designed to listen to our bodies and what they want, not our minds, or more likely our emotions. There’s also a plan where we can learn to love ourselves and thus end the search for love in all the wrong places, especially grocery stores and restaurants. A well-known nutritionist touts healthy eating as the way out of the chemical dangers and addictions caused by refined sugar, preservatives, pesticides and hormones.

Diet pills of every variety, both over the counter and prescriptive, have failed miserably for the majority of those spending billions on them. The now infamous Fen Phen, still buried in independent lawsuits as well as class action suits, was lethal for some and fatal for others. Pills that actually do no harm, work sometimes via the placebo effect, but they seldom offer a long-term solution.

A new approach is starting to take shape by word of mouth and is being seriously considered by many who have tried everything else and failed. It has to do with what is described as “Generic Faith”…(to separate it from the faith concepts of religious sectarianism.) It defines Faith as simply “relying on what lies beyond logic and limitation.”

The premise of this plan sounds quite simple…but it’s not necessarily easy to follow, initially. When compulsion descends most people describe it as so compelling that all resolve and reason disappear. People say they actually feel they will die if they don’t get their “fix”, whatever that food might be at the moment. It makes no difference that their logic tells them that won’t happen…it feels like it will and they’re overwhelmed.

Where Faith comes in is in working with an affirmation. The afflicted affirm that they have the Faith at that exact moment that they will survive if they don’t get their treat. For many, this is working surprisingly well. If the craving returns, they repeat the proces stating that they really believe, have Faith, that they can pass on what their bodies are screaming for and live to tell the tale.

As this catches on, we will see what the track records are. At first glance, it sounds like a very personal approach that doesn’t require groups, books, seminars, pills or even prayer in the common sense of the word. Everyone knows, intellectually, that passing on a treat won’t cause death, but it seems to be the “degree of Faith” involved in making the affirmation that evokes success, not rational thought.

The Faith Plan certainly is a moment-to-moment thing. Yet those who are practicing it say it gets easier and easier. That’s the direct opposite of the standard experience of denial, which usually becomes harder and harder…then, impossible. So, here’s hoping!

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