Obsessive-compulsive disorder and weight loss

Anorexia and Bulimia

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Weight Loss

Anorexia and Bulimia,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Weight Loss

Some readers may find such stories disturbing.  The story started when I was young, I was about 12 years old.

Thought in my mind how they were obsessed with their appearance, the collar bones and the open ribcage, the perfect body.

The most important thing they think about, they direct their full energy into getting a slim body.

 Although my mother did not like to watch them.

Many years passed and I came to know how they think and live and their lifestyle, which may be satisfactory. 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a fairly common mental health condition.   It can involve obsessions and rituals that may affect a person's daily life.  

OCD usually involves repetitive and uncontrollable obsessions and compulsions.  Obsessions are intrusive thoughts that include: Fear of germs or contamination.  Fear of losing control.  

The desire to have things in perfect and harmonious order.  Fear of excess weight.

Compulsions are behaviors or rituals that a person feels the need to perform repeatedly, and may include: 

• Excessive hand washing or cleaning
• Compulsive counting
• Arranging items in a specific way 

OCD can affect anyone, although it may be more common in certain populations.

Anorexia and bulimia 

In fact, there are two conditions: 

• Anorexia

• Bulimia

anorexia 

It is the restriction of food intake, which leads to weight loss and is often accompanied by a fear of gaining weight, and is also accompanied by social, hormonal, and psychological disturbances, according to (  Nutrients ). 

Weight loss must be done carefully without reaching the stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders, which may lead to adverse results on the heart, liver, bones and som digestive diseases.

bulimia 

it is regular attacks that are often the result of overeating, followed by severe vomiting, as well as following a strict diet and intense exercise, and it is also linked to anxiety and fear of diabetes or gaining weight, according to a study in 2023 (  Mol psychatry ).

All of these definitions are completely correct, but they lack the emotional impact that accompanies these diseases later.

Kathy, the calm and wonderful girl, tells me everything that is going on with her.

She suffered from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) for most of her life. 

She always remembers to me a river of nightmares filling her mind, loud noises, and strange incidents that pass through her imagination, from the moment she wakes up, and until she goes back to sleep. 

Like the waves of the sea rolling over my head:

What if your friend cheats on you? 

What if I were a murderer and I didn’t harm an rrrŕ..

Go to a daily exercise routin in nature

There was also something more important than the mirror, the girls' look at it after returning to the mother city. 

Silence was the most important thing that made her happy. 

The internal torture was over. The evil thoughts are over, the obsessive thoughts are over.

The change that occurred from a state of continuous focus on food to a state of a diet without starch, gluten, or sugars.

After the change, I started looking for low-carb recipes, food without bread, without sugar, foods rich in vitamin C, calcium and healthy fruits as blueberries and strawberry, which contain Omega-3 and vitamin D.

She ate vegetables such as spinach, okra and lettuce.

For hours and days until the beginning of the university year, with all hope and optimism for a beautiful life and a fit body. 

I have cured myself of obsessive-compulsive disorder (she told me this while full of life and confidence).

In fact, she did not treat anything. She only replaced one monster with another wearing other clothes. She is completely convinced of her recovery.

Anorexia turns into bulimia

When she later returned to eating, her anorexia turned into bulimia, it is a common phenomenon. 

As a kind of simple explanation for these cases.

During anorexia the body tries to stay alive as a basic survival instinct in humans, and as a result of starvation, a process occurs (transferring the situation from one state to another in order to preserve life). 

But as soon as you start eating the first full meal, the body returns to its original state with high gluttony and an inability to control oneself.

It also poses a risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and diabetes.

Kathy had reached this point. 

She took a small piece of chocolate. She said to herself, “I will not eat another one,” but as soon as the taste of sugar reached her teeth, her brain, and her soul, she could not stop. 

She continued one after another until she finished everything she had. It was surprising to her.

But scientifically, eating excessively is also a psychological state similar to starvation.

The nervous and psychological state accompanying weight loss or weight gain must be at the lowest cost!! 

The solution:

Nutritional education is an essential part of treatment, in addition to collective physical exercise as walking , social media, self-esteem, and dissemination of these cultures . 

To enhance preventive efforts from these diseases so that we do not remain in a transition from one condition to another, but rather strengthen positive energy. This sacred body needs care, whether in fat or thin people.

Healthy food opens the way for you to a better life.

Be well

By [ NAZIH ]