ANOREXY AND BULIMY

DEFINITION: Bulimy: Anorexy: People suffering eat excesively and after they vomitate or use laxatives and diuretics. Sometimes they submit themselves to very restricted diets which modify their character and behaviour. Anorexy: People suffering from anorexy, don’t want to mantain their normal weight because they are affraid of gaining weight and becoming obese, and they are worried about their body.

SYMPTOMS: Anorexy: 1.- Don’t want to keep their weight 2.-Vomitate 3.-Start eating less and less 4.- Can’t concentrate in their studies 5.- Lose their menstruatin 6.- People feel cold, lose their hair... Etc...

SYMPTOMS: Bulimy: 1.- Eating with out control 2.- Feeling that it’s impossible to stop eating 3.- Fasting to compensate for previous over eating 4.- Inducing vomits that are denied 5.- Abusing of laxatives and diuretics 6.- Problems with theeth 7.- Changes of humor and deppresions

TREATMENT: Anorexy: The best treatment is a group therapy Talking about the problem T he help of the family And the more important is adquiring the right eatingattitude

TREATMENT: Bulimy: The best treatment is group or individual therapy Then, adquiring the right eating actitude The bulimy there is a pharmacologic treatment The most affective are antidepressants