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Understanding About Eating Disorder Symptoms

It is not necessary for a person who has an eating disorder symptom to appear to be underweight in order to be diagnosed as suffering from an eating disorder. Actually, eating disorder symptoms manifest themselves in a myriad of ways, depending on whether a person is suffering from anorexia or bulimia nervosa or some other eating disorder.

If a person is suffering from anorexia or bulemia, one of the main symptoms is dramatic weight loss over a relatively short period of time or even wearing excessively baggy clothes or dressing in layers to hide the body’s shape.

In addition, obsession with weight as well as making complaints regarding weight problems is tell-tale sign. There is also predictably obsession with calories as well as the fat content in foods, and also being completely taken up with thoughts of exercising continuously.

As the disease progresses other symptoms come like hair loss, pale or gray appearance of the skin as well as dizziness and headaches; these symptoms are specific to both anorexia and bulimia. Other eating disorder symptoms are low self-esteem, complaints of feeling cold continuously, low blood pressure as well as constipation or incontinence, and/or abuse of laxatives.

A person suffering from anorexia nervosa is obsessed with food and weight and will generally experience intense as well as overwhelming fear of putting on weight or becoming fat. It does not seem to matter to these people that their weight may not be abnormal, and they feel that their body weight, shape and size may directly be related to how good they may be feeling about themselves.

It is believed by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-IV that anorexia nervosa as well as bulimia nervosa have psychological features that differ from person to person and these include major depressive disorders, anxiety, preoccupation with food, becoming perfectionists as well being uncomfortable while eating in public.