what is the best treatments for anorexia? and how long does it take to cure anorexia?

Question

is it best to see a doctor from a hospital?

Answer 1

Treatment for anorexia is multi-faceted and individualized according to your specific problems. The first priority of treatment is to regain physical health; all other treatment follows from that. A treatment program for anorexia commonly involves the following steps:

Address physical effects of the anorexia
Gain weight
Implement a plan for healthy eating
Adjust to the new eating habits and increased body weight
Address the psychological underpinnings of the anorexia
Regaining physical health is essential for working toward psychological health: you can devote yourself to developing a healthier mental state when your body is in a stable, healthy condition.
Psychotherapy as treatment for anorexia
Because a poor body image and low self-esteem underlie anorexia, psychotherapy is an important aspect of treatment for anorexia.

Individual psychotherapy addresses the emotional underpinnings of anorexia. Therapy helps you to identify concerns, solve problems, overcome fears, and test new skills. Each kind of therapist approaches discussions about anorexia differently, according to specialty.

Cognitive behavior therapy focuses on the thoughts that envelop food and eating. One of the main goals is for you to become more self-aware of your relationship to food. Your therapist may ask you to keep a food diary or a journal of your thought processes about food.
Behavior therapy uses rewards and repercussions to change the behavior of self-starvation. The behavior therapist teaches you to substitute relaxation and other coping strategies for the excessive exercising or fasting of anorexia.
Other types of psychotherapy focus on social and emotional conditions in your life that can lead to low self-esteem, which may in turn contribute to your anorexia. Therapists may include massage or relaxation exercises in your mental health treatment.
Family therapy looks at the family dynamics that may contribute to your anorexia and often includes some therapy sessions without you. Family therapy may be the solution when the person with anorexia denies the eating disorder.
Group therapy led by a psychotherapist allows you to talk in a supervised setting with other people who have anorexia. Group therapy helps to reduce the isolation you may feel about your disorder, and group members can support each other in their quest for wellness.
Support groups are led by trained volunteers or health professionals. To decide if a self-help support group will be effective in your anorexia treatment plan, see What about self-help groups?, from the National Eating Disorders Association. For help in finding a support group, refer to EatingDisorders Help and Support.
Medical care and monitoring for treatment of anorexia
A medical doctor assesses the physical effects of anorexia on your body, helps you to regain physical health, and monitors vital signs, hydration level, and electrolytes during the course of your treatment.

Nutritional counseling for treatment of anorexia
A dietician helps you to develop and follow through on a diet that will sustain you. To increase your weight, the dietician designs balanced meal plans that include the right number of calories for you to gain weight and restore health.

Medications as treatment for anorexia
Medication alone is not effective for the treatment of anorexia, but a medical doctor or psychiatrist may prescribe drugs to help with the symptoms or results of anorexia. Antidepressant drugs treat the depression and anxiety that often accompany (or cause) anorexia. Be sure to read Medications for Treating Depression and Anxiety: Making Informed Choices for a discussion of antidepressant risks. Other drugs for treating anorexia may help you to gain weight or to curb obsessive-compulsive behaviors.
Inpatient treatment centers for anorexia

If the physical effects of anorexia become life-threatening, or the psychological problems are severe, your mental health practitioner or medical doctor may recommend residential, inpatient treatment for anorexia. This may be in a hospital or in an eating disorders treatment center. After the initial, urgent care in a residential center, you will continue anorexia treatment on an outpatient basis.

Answer 2

At the moment, the best approach seems to be Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Rather than trying to change the patient's dangerous behaviour, or improve their appetite ('anorexia' actually means 'no appetite', although anorexics often describe feelings of pride in being able to overcome their appetite, which is very strong; it makes them feel stronger, and encourages the disorder), CBT explores why they feel that the disorder is useful to them.

Treatments based on telling an anorexic person that their understanding of nutrition is faulty seem to make the patient more and more determined to prove everybody else wrong.

It's very difficult for anybody without the disorder to understand that the patient is trying to improve themself; people just assume that the motivation is something self-destructive. That includes a lot of doctors and dieticians who should know better.

(It is still quite common for doctors to tell people that the only reason they can't lose weight is a lack of will-power; will-power is the anorexic's Specialist Subject!)

CBT may work so well because it allows the patient to find other ways of demonstrating their competence, and these become a more rewarding focus than the eating disorder was.

For example, a common symptom of anorexia has always been overexercising, although nowadays it's often thought of as a separate disorder.

If an overexercising anorexic starts to understand how much more powerful their body can be with a properly nutritious food supply, the physical activity can take over from the obsession.

That can trigger a deeper interest in self-improvement than the simple 'anti-calorie' obsession that is common to anorexics and unsuccessful slimmers alike.

How long it takes will vary from one patient to the next.

Sheila McLeod gives a very good account of her progress through the disorder and her recovery from it, in a book called THE ART OF STARVATION. It was published in 1980, but a lot of clinicians dealing with calorie-phobic patients still seem to be completely ignorant of it.

Answer 3

As a professional dancer, I know several people with this illness... that's what it is, an illness, NOT a problem. I strongly recommend seeking medical advice for help but the best advice that i can give is to use will power. It is hard to beat but it can be done. Try to eat just a little everyday, even if it's only a small salad as you will feel full quickly due to the stomach shrinking after not eating properly for so long. It will expand again over time though.

Good luck and remember, you don't have to be stick thin to be beatiful. I'm not even in my profession! Some people are just naturally that shape and others aren't but either way, you are you and that's what people love you for!

Answer 4

Not trying to make drugs sound good, but maybe you should try Pot---Seriously... It's actually been given to patients suffering from chemo therapy to help give them back their appetites and it have been proven to work on their stomach pains as well as making their appetites stronger-hence the "munchies"maybe that or you can go to a health food store and they may be able to give you domething you can try,like an herb...

Answer 5

Eating small portions at a time, to replenish the missing nutrients that were deprived from the body. How long is dependent on how serious the case is.

Answer 6

I think you should still go seek help. but then again some people recover on their own. I would still seek help from a doctor of some sorts to make sure that you are gaining weight in a healthy way.

Answer 7

Do you desire to know one of the factors common Law of attractionmaterial doesn't work for numerous people?Think it like a diet plan. If you want reduce weight and you work hard to lose it

Answer 8

eating and a lot of supprt from family and friends.... it takes a little while bc that person has to keep telling themselves they r not fat...that is y they r anorexic in the first place

Answer 9

eating