What are symptoms of aneroxia?

Question

I need to know this for certain reasons.

Answer 1

-Constantly worries about weight
-Refuses to maintain a healthy weight
-Thinks of healthy weight as being "fat"
-Thinks of himself/herself as "fat" even when seriously underweight
-Tries on smaller and smaller sizes
-Gets defensive when someone mentions weight issues or anorexia
-Depressed
-Anxious
-Refuses to eat or eats incredibly small amounts
-Eats and purges privately
-Losing hair on head while growing thicker hair on arms, etc.
-Using laxatives frequently to the point of abusing them
-Very secretive about food
-Works out constantly, runs incredible distances

If you're worried about someone, please talk to a doctor and/or psychologist SOON! Anorexia can result in death if left untreated!!!

Answer 2

The symptoms of anorexia are as follows you stop eating except for very small portions like a few crackers and water you also may weigh every thing you eat. If you have to eat with your friends or parents you may eat small amounts and then go to the bathroom and through up what you just ate. Also you will become obsessed with exercise to the point that you can not stop exercising this will make you loose weight along with not eating. If you are a girl or a woman that has a period after month's of this not eating and exercising you will no longer have a period and this is not a good thing none of this is good for your body after a long time of keeping this up your body will start shutting down and if you do not get medical help you will die.

Answer 3

Symptoms would be....
1) Very thin, almost NO fat on the body. A.K.A. "Skin and bones"
2) Sunken cheeks (No fat in the cheeks, remember?)
3) Cuts on the skin are harder to heal, leaving scars
4) Not eating at the table
5) Exercising A LOT


I just read your other quesiton, about being raped- I think you can tell someone you feel safe with, and did you ask this question about anorexia because you felt you were losing weight due to being raped? Anyway, I think if you feel comfortable telling eveyrone on Yahoo! Answers about it, you can tell someone you really trust like your parents or a close friend. Don't keep it in!

Answer 4

A very, very thin person looks in the mirror and sees fat. That's classic. Proves it's a psychological disease.

The other symptoms are pretty well known. The person eats and then goes to the bathroom immediately, to throw-up.

The person is bone thin but tells friends they are on a diet, trying to lose weight.

Extreme thinness combined with a concern for losing weight, that's how you know.

Answer 5

Picking at your food/not eating. Looking in the mirror and seeing yourself as heavyset, even though you are really thin. Feeling weak and being more clumsy. Lightheadedness, getting tired more often, dizzy spells.

Answer 6

It's in my head.

1. damage to kidneys and other digestive organs.
2. worsen teeth.
3. ribs could be visible.

Answer 7

Missed periods
Obsession with food or staying away from it.
Extreme thinness
Obsessions with excercise

Answer 8

Individuals with anorexia nervosa are unwilling or unable to maintain a body weight that is normal or expectable for their age and height (most clinicians use 85% of normal weight as a guide). Individuals with anorexia nervosa typically display a pronounced fear of weight gain and a dread of becoming fat although they are dramatically underweight. Concerns and perceptions about their weight have a extremely powerful influence and impact on their self-evaluation. The seriousness of the weight loss and its physical effects is minimized or denied (women with the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa have missed at least three consecutive menstrual cycles).

Diagnostic criteria of anorexia nervosa include two subtypes of the disorder that describe two distinct behavioral patterns. Individuals with the Restricting Type maintain their low body weight purely by restricting food intake and increased activity (i.e. compulsive exercise). Those with the Binge-Eating/Purging Type usually restrict their food intake but also regularly engage in binge eating and/or purging behaviors (i.e. self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas). Binge-Eating/Purging Type of Anorexia Nervosa is also frequently associated with other impulse control problems and mood disorders.

People who suffer from anorexia often have low self-esteem and a tremendous need to control their surroundings and emotions. The eating disorder is often a reaction to external and internal conflicts (i.e. anxiety, stress, and unhappiness can be leading factors).



Profile: Anorexia Nervosa

The person suffering Anorexia is generally extremely sensitive about being fat, or has an intense fear of becoming fat, and of losing control over the amount of food he/she eats. This hyper-sensitivity is accompanied by the desire to control his/her emotions and reactions to these emotions. Low self-esteem and the constant need for acceptance leads to obsessive dieting and starvation as a way to control not only weight, but also feelings and actions regarding their emotions. Many anorexics feel they are not deserving of life's gifts and pleasures. They often deprive themselves of situations that offer pleasure. Starvation or restriction, obsessive exercise, calorie counting, a constant obsession with food and health issues, self-induced vomiting, the use of excessive amounts of laxative, diuretics, and/or diet pills, and a persistent concern with body image can all be some of the physical indications that someone suffers from Anorexia Nervosa. People suffering with Anorexia may also go through periods of Bulimia (binging and purging) as well.

There are numerous ways a person with Anorexia can exhibit their disorder. The anorexic attempts to maintain strict control over food/caloric intake. Periods of starvation, obsessive counting of calories, compulsive exercising, and/or purging after meals are among the most common symptoms. In some cases, an anorexic will seem to eat normal meals with only periods of restriction. They use diet pills to control their appetite, or laxatives to attempt to rid their body of food, both of which are dangerous and useless in producing weight loss results. Anorexics will deny hunger, make excuses to avoid eating, will often hide food they claim to have eaten, or attempt to purge the food away with self-induced vomiting, or by taking laxatives.

Answer 9

-unhappy with themselves and appearence
-constant thought of food
-always thinking they are fat
-restricts calories
-obsessed with food
-hair loss & pale skin
-does not partake in activities they used to like doing

**Trust me, I know this because I was anorexic.

Answer 10

If you look like lidsay Lohen