Posts Tagged ‘anorexia’
The Name of Anorexia
The important thing is a diagnostic approach and move in the context of working with other
I refer not only to the clinical diagnosis but also to performance. Each subject works in a way and although this method may seem irrational to us must understand that something is, which has a logic that does not know. Thus marks the position of a non-professional to know that it is sometimes difficult to tolerate.
Why would a teenager wearing a hat all day and if he says something is angry or assaulted? Is it a bad habit that must be corrected? The case to which I refer is a subject that used to protect the Other who could read his thoughts and “so the look does not happen.” There was no point that educators will explain that the other could not read it, because its development was not limited to the Other which is what children do when they tell lies to their parents to verify that the other can be deceiving. Why not work? Because the subject has a certainty and that is not modified in any case be avoided, surrounding it. Needless to say, he continued with his hat until it became dark glasses, to ensure a look.
The operation can give a first approximation to the defensive and productive forms of a subject.
Another example, a boy who is very good student but systematically avoids a plot of knowledge related to biology because it produces horror the human body, it acquires the significance of dead meat. Of course this does not appear so clear in the beginning. At school, his teammates tease him and a teacher determined to “teach” it stresses the body and sexuality is embarrassed by interpreting the sexed body. Another problem I had was a change in the form of food, not eat “dead animals”, his environment gave him the name of anorexia. For this guy to avoid the knowledge related to anatomy, especially their representation and transformation in lacto-ovo-vegetarian realized the invention of a solution. After a while working and locate the points needed to support the school and family, they could not accept an exclusion in the know and feed conversion, things were better. The subject worked to build their defense against the horror that invaded but construction was not socially accepted. It is true that the question of what are the limits to accept in such cases. Often adaptive efforts and destabilize social normalizing the other subject’s efforts to restore order and prepare an explanation of what happens. The problem was how to locate this guy deal with that upset him and his defense to upset parents and teachers.
Therefore it is important not only networking with other professionals but also with the network of movement of the subject so they can accept, within certain limits, its particularity. Of course, not everything can be integrated and that sometimes the subject which stabilizes the social destabilizing why the less adaptive response is more restricted is the possibility of movement. Sometimes income is the solution …
Healthy Habits
“One of the ways to prevent and avoid risks is to promote good eating habits from the beginning.” Therefore, recalled that “one of the major health problems in society today is childhood obesity, not to mention the alterations associated with diseases such as anorexia and bulimia.
In this regard, the Hospital Doctor Peset Valencia is conducting a multidisciplinary study to analyze the effects of malnutrition on visual function and central nervous system. The research consists of a clinical and experimental models in animals.
The first involves patients with eating disorders, which are currently conducting a study of visual function: visual acuity tests, visual field and fundus study.
“The central nervous system and visual system are extremely sensitive and vulnerable to nutritional disturbances, both in development and in adults. Malnutrition during development can induce the failure of axons and altered axonal myelination, “the researchers explain.
“Our working hypothesis is that possibly retinal cells undergo a gradual process of injury or damage, depending on the level of malnutrition, which could end with the death of these cells. This is reflected in a loss of vision or visual processing anomalies, for example, could explain from a physical point why patients with anorexia have an altered vision of his own body, an unrealistic image of themselves that could due to damage to neurons in the visual cortex.