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While there is not one particular cause for the cause people amplify anorexia, it seems that it may not be a media-created illness. (Though the media probably should be held responsible for creating unrealistic expectations for both men and women of what their bodies should look favor). By blaming the media, anorexia is not viewed for what it truly is, a psychiatric cancer. The underlying psychological causes of this disease must be addressed in the individual in order for recovery to happen.
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Anorexia in Ghana
Moreover, anorexia has existed long ahead Hollywood, Barbie, TV, super models, and mainstream journals with airbrushing. Historians point to the subsistence of anorexia during the Middle Ages. During this period duration anorexia was most frequent among religious diagrams. A well known anorexic was Saint Catherine of Siena,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who viewed famine for a martyrdom for God and a route to purity. She finished up dying at the age of 33 from the illness.
The media is often blamed for causing women to have eating disorders for it portrays mallet skinny women as prettiness ideals. However, anorexia is many more perplexing than mere body dissatisfaction. It is often a symptom of an underlying psychological issue, such as depression. It is not unusual for anorexics to likewise be self-mutilators (they may cut alternatively scald themselves) and have suicidal tendencies. Anorexia has the maximum mortality rate of all cerebral disorders, with the number one cause of necrosis as suicide. People suffering from anorexia tend to have a preference for addiction,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as alcoholism, narcotic addiction, even sexual obsession.
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Recent research has base that those with anorexia often have genetic predispositions to this disease. In "Causes of Eating Disorders- Biological Factors" ashore mentalhelp.net, the article states,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "inherited biological and genetic factors contribute nearly 56% of the risk for developing an eating muddle." Two neurotransmitters that seems to have irregular levels in the anorexic are dopamine and serotonin. Altered levels of dopamine can lead to a decreased sense of happiness as well as repetitious behaviors. Overproduction of serotonin can create tall levels of stress and anxiety. Both of these symptoms are hallmark behaviors of an anorexic.
A recent learn issued in the British Journal of Psychiatry seems apt challenge accustomed wisdom namely media namely to reproach because one anorexic's compulsion to be gaunt. Researchers saw at cases of anorexia in Ghana. They concluded that anorexia in this portion of rustic Africa was no pedaled along a diseased alarm of obesity, yet preferably a response to stress and a lust to acquisition some sense of control.
Engel D,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Staats Reiss N, Dombeck M, Causes of dining disorders- biological factors. Feb 2,
Biological Factors
Bennet D Sharpe M Freeman C,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Carson A, Anorexia nervosa in female secondary educate students in Ghana. B J Psych 2004; 185:312-317
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