When Anorexia is Reversed

when anorexia is reversed

Speaking of eating disorder anorexia as the first order is nothing new. Thoroughly know the risks and problems involving people around the addict. But what about a condition in which anorexia is reversed making obese people feel when they are skinny? That is, according to the author Sarah Bird, the Fatorexia.

This British author discusses this issue in his new book: “Fatorexia: What do you see When you look in the mirror?” In which fatorexia treated as a real condition and undervalued, which occurs in more people than believed.

Behaviors typical of a person with fatorexia are looking to avoid a full-length mirror for looking Otar figure in hand mirrors, the use of loose clothes to disguise body fat and the use of jewelry and ornaments that clog the body obese.

The problems associated with fatorexia are obvious, these are the typical problems faced by people with obesity: diabetes, cardiovascular problems, risk of heart attacks, etc.

Hardly address this disorder as a disease itself, but rather it is within the framework of psychoanalysis, it is more a behavioral disorder than a disease. Neither is anorexia, so it should not be confused either treatment.

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