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Symptoms of eating disorders[Anorexia Nervosa]

“Eating disorder success stories “is a popular tag in the online search tool and if one browses on that tag one can see in it clearly the ways by which those with binge eating disorder have been saved from their problematic disease. One would be stuck with wonder if one closely observes the various ways these people had suffered to overcome the eating disorder problem and the way by which these people got back to their normal life is indeed a story worth reading over and over again so that we the onlookers would know the real importance of our life. In order to revive these people professional help is sought. This is where the role played by various private rehab centers must be considered.

In these rehabs people with eating disorder are given special treatments and by the professional counseling and medications of the rehab center the life of the person is saved from the hazardous Anorexia Nervosa.

The eating disorder success stories when telecasted either in a local channel show or in a "you tube" online channel clearly conveys the cautioned message to the onlooker asking them not to settle for crash diets. This is because the symptoms of eating disorders normally include the unhealthy way by which an affected person would exercise hard and how they compulsively involve themselves with the crash diet and exercise regimes. They would be extremely sensitive to cold and they would choose to eat alone than in company. Evident problems in their skin, hair as well as nails with the yellow patches of dry skin on body indicate the diseased condition of the person. The physical appearance of these people would be very pale and the unhealthy look shows out when one sets a glance of his/her face. The mentality of these people would be always quite different because all the while they would be obsessed that they are fat! Fat! An increased observation to their own personal looks and the depressed outlook due to their weight is predominant in their out ward appearance .It must be noted that these people would always lament that they are fat inspite of themselves being below the normal weight. Mostly these persons affected by eating disorder would like to vomit out the food they have taken in as they would fear of the increase of weight due to the food intake. Therefore if any of the above symptoms of eating disorders persist in a friend or relative of yours then it is wise to seek the quick professional help at the early stage itself. The recent studies reveal that the chemical imbalance in the brain is the real cause for such binge eaters but when treated professionally these people could be saved from the clutches of death.

Suboxone treatment for opiate addiction

Drug addiction is a fast growing and worldwide problem. Today, dependence on prescription drugs is rising as supply is maintained and cost is low. For those who cannot afford hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, over the counter medicines are a substitute as they are much cheaper. Pain killers are especially sought after. As morphine is one of the most widely used bases for painkillers, it is safe to say that opioids have become a drug much sought after by addicts. Incidentally, opioids are derived from the opium poppy flower and are one of the oldest drugs in the world.

 

There are many opioid-based drugs prescribed by doctors, one of them being vicodin. Used as a moderate pain killer, it contains a combination of acetaminophen and hydrocodone. Most addicts dependent on such medication do not start out as addicts but slowly get hooked on the drug following prescription for an illness or accident. Like all addictions, vicodin addiction requires proper detoxification. One method is by following The Waismann Method, a rapid opiate detoxification (ROD). The addict will be placed under sedation and will undergo a process whereby the brain’s opiate receptors will be blocked from any opiate.

 

Another is by following the suboxone treatment. Suboxone is an opioid used to treat opiate addiction and is the first such drug approved for this. The treatment begins while the patient is undergoing mild withdrawal. The drug is given is small doses, sufficient for the patient to function normally without withdrawal symptoms. It is then tapered off until the patient decides to quit suboxone and opiates entirely. This is coupled with counselling to improve chances of success for recovery. The drug is not sold without a prescription and requires a licensed medical practitioner to prescribe it.

 

Addiction to vicodin and other opiates requires complete physical and psychological care and not a one-sided treatment plan. Most doctors who supervise its de-addiction should be properly equipped to handle all aspects of helping the patient overcome his problem. It would prove pointless if an addict were to quit his addiction for a short time and relapse later. Psychological healing together with good physical treatment is the only way opiate addiction can be countered.

Plagued With Eating Disorders

I have often wondered why models are portrayed as extremely thin women. Does beauty only lie in women who are a size zero? I agree that extra weight on a person will lead to many health complications and hence it is better avoided. But, does everyone have to literally starve themselves to become a size zero in order to be appreciated and in order to be more like the models they see on the television screen?

I think media influences a lot of young women. They want to be like the miserably thin women they see on screen. They want to dress like those women too. Hence they need the kind of body they see on screen. That forces them to starve and get the ideal weight. This is a disease called anorexia nervosa. The best anorexia nervosa treatment is to be understanding towards your loved one who is suffering and spend lots of time with her.

In fact, there are also women who love to eat well. They cannot starve themselves to achieve their unrealistic goal. Hence, after they eat well, they are so plagued with their guilt that they rush for the bathroom and force all the food out. This is called binge eating disorder. The best binge eating disorder treatment is to first recognise that your loved one has a problem and talk to her about it.

When binge eating becomes a part of their daily routine, you will begin to notice the changes in their appearance and behaviour. It is nothing short of a disease that needs to be treated by a professional. Of course, they will need all the support they can get from you because they will suffer from low self esteem. These patients will need constant monitoring to get back on the right track again. They will need medication and frequent trips to the doctor. They may even be advised hospitalisation.

The best anorexia nervosa treatment is for the person to first realise she has a problem and want to conquer it. She must stay away from places and people who may tempt her. The same goes for binge eating disorder treatment. Keep a lot of healthy foods in the house. Avoid lecturing the person but be supportive and let them learn from your example. Try and reduce stress levels and don’t forget to get professional help.

 

VICODIN ADDICTION – A serious issue among teenagers

Teenage drug abuse is a wide spread addiction found common in many teenagers which when left untreated can cause hazardous consequences. The type of teenage drug abuse commonly found is the prescription drug abuse and this comprises normally the narcotics, sedatives and stimulants which are prescribed by doctors to their patients. The teen agers who like to take advantage of the prescription steal it either from their parents or friends .Later they give the prescription to the pharmacist who in turn hands the concerned teenager the required drugs. It is a pity to note that the Vicodin addiction is one of the most common prescription abuse among teen agers.This vicodin is actually a drug which is given to patients to manage acute pain while the well known valium addiction is the addiction to a drug named valium. Both Valium and Vicodin are drugs given for sedative purposes and patients suffering from sleeping disorders, anxiety, muscle spasm and acute pin use this to relieve themselves from the acute body pain.

A teenager who has got the vicodin addiction is at first introduced to vicodin detoxification. This medical procedure takes place for a few days and it helps those who exhibit severe withdrawal symptoms a great relief. .The required prescription substitutes are given to the patients and they are kept under direct medical supervision. As soon as a patient stops taking Vicodin many symptoms like runny nose, muscle aches, insomnia, vomiting and chills can be found. Hence detoxification is a real painful process and it requires the help of a professional person to handle the process. Moreover this painful process requires also the co operation of the patient, his friends, parents who could give a lending hand and support him /her emotionally.

Anesthesia vicodin detox treatment is a very painful process and this process would give the required comfort for the patient in the long run of his /her life. Vicodin addiction is a very serious issue which should not be taken for granted. In case a parent comes to know of this addiction in his. Her teen aged child then instead of showing anger and worsening the situation an effective rehab center should be chosen .The required treatments should be given by a professional who could thereby save the child from the ill effects of this kind of prescription addiction.

 

Reduce prescription drug abuse by educating about ill-effects

According to recent survey, prescription drug abuse is one rise among teenage groups. Whenever any one uses prescribed drugs for non medication purposes then it becomes an abuse. The side effects could be many depending on the type of drug and the amount it is consumed. Most of the teen drug abuses happen when parents or elders are careless and do not take sufficient attention to their children’s day to day habits. Irrespective of the nature of drugs, they always affect the functioning of brain and other parts of the body.

For instance, if prescribed drugs reduce the hunger pang of one child for some reason, then other teenagers could overhear the conversation and come to a conclusion that the specific prescribed drug can be used for weight loss. Some of the commonly misused prescribed drugs are narcotic painkillers, Vicodin, sedatives like Xanax, tranquilizers, most importantly stimulant drugs and steroids. Prescription drug abuse has been on rise, but the exact reason behind this rise is still unknown. Some teenagers may have the perception that prescribed drugs are safer to use than illegal drugs like marijuana. If teenagers are misusing the drugs prescribed for their parents, then it could merely be a misconception about the usage of drugs. If proper attention is not paid on time, then teenagers could easily fall into addiction, which could jeopardize their future.

Addiction to prescribed drugs paves the way for illegal drugs like Marijuana and cocaine. This is mainly because the brain gets wrongly wired and looses the ability to differentiate between prescribed drugs and illegal drugs. Most of the drugs are suppressants and hence affects the presence of normal brain chemicals and its functioning. Once the prescribed drug intake is stopped, then brain cannot easily trace back to normal functioning. As the drug addiction is biological, prescription drug abuse becomes more or less similar to illegal drug abuse.

Prescription drugs are only safe for people who have the prescription to use them. As each individual’s physical body is different, prescribed drugs for one patient may not match for other person even if both of them have the same symptoms or disease. Teen drug abuse can be overcome by properly educating teenagers about its ill-effects.

Teen drug abuse certainly spoils youngster’s life; it takes them in a different track. Most of the time, youngsters fall into drug addiction either when they lack support from parents or when they want to get away from real life problems. Teenage is the like a fork, either they can fall into drug abuse and spoil their entire life or get educated by elders and stay away from drugs. 

 

Healthy habits keep obesity at bay

She was a leading ramp model, led a very successful life and had many famous designers opting for her to showcase their clothing line. She was at the peak of her career and things look really bright for near future. She was hardworking and sincere in her profession. In spite of the cut throat competition in her field, she was able to carve a niche for herself and created a place of her own under the sun. Success, fame and money were always with her. Off late, she was looking pale and exhausted. Initially it was thought that the reason was her work which is taking its toll on her body. She was suggested to take rest for some time. She did that, but in vain. Once she resumed her work, things worsened. Initially for some time she looked refreshed, but sometime later she was again the same. Finally she visited the doctor. After examining her and rounds of several medical check-ups, it was determined that she had symptoms of eating disorders. Even though she was undergoing regular exercise routine, she thought of accompanying it with rigorous diet control to maintain weight. She was not eating required amount of food. She did so in the fear of gaining weight and eventually losing out on the assignments she had. This fear and her steps to overcome that fear have led her to malnutrition and weakness. Her body had become weak and immune system had gone for a toss. She was susceptible to illnesses. She was directed to the nutritionist and psycho therapist as well. They guided her to take in right food, at right intervals. Yoga was advised to her for better mind control and more positive approach. Her mind was reformed to understand the importance of eating right food instead of skipping it.

 

In the world of fashion we get to see many such incidents, but with help of doctors and therapists today there is a higher rate of eating disorder success stories rather than failures. The people are cautious about their looks and presentation; they need to be guided in the right direction to strike the balance of eating right and exercising to burn out the excess calories. A healthy body has healthy and more productive mind. This equation should always be bore in mind. Starving the body is not the key to lose weight, but burning out calories by doing small things like climbing steps instead of taking lift, walking short distances etc. These small things help us in longer run.

How can we evade teenage drug abuse? How we can save our angels from Vicodin addiction:

Teen age drug abuse is a common problem and it can affect anyone. Most of the time we trust blindly on our children or sometime we think that now our teenage child is mature and can comprehend the difference between wrong and right. We think this because most of the time, he/she behaves like a mature. Mostly we are busy so much in our own world that we even don’t care for the feelings of our teenagers. So in this case we are somewhat responsible for enhancing frustrations in the teenagers. I am not saying that you should go to the extreme and should leave your career for your children but yes we need to devote time to those angels, to whom we have given birth. Or they will become homeless wanderers and our conscience will pinch us for this deed.

 

One of my teen age daughter’s friends fell into the trap of drug addiction. The girl, Razel I am talking about is the daughter of my neighbors. They even after coming home never spent time with her and some time she used to complaint about headaches and backaches. After some time I came to know that the girl got addicted of the Vicodin.she was victimized by Vicodin addiction and sometimes started taking over dosage too.

 

Vicodin addiction is an addiction of painkiller drug which takes you to the state of calm and elated state just similar to other abusive drugs like heroin. You can come to know about your teen’s addiction by his/her strange behavior. As Razel, stopped coming to my house even she stopped talking to my daughter. After few days her mother told us about her vicodin addiction. I was stunned to hear it. Vicodin addiction is not uncommon and it is an easily available narcotic. It is easily available at every street in cheaper cost of 2 to 10 dollars.

 

The angel Razel was trapped in the cruel clutches of the teenage drug abuse. I counseled her parents and she was taken to rehab center for curing of her teenage drug abuse. She started improving day by day with the efforts of her parents, friends and rehab center people. At last we succeeded in removing her vicodin addiction completely. Now by explaining this real story, if I would be able to save even one angle from this abuse then I would be proud of myself.

Are you ignoring Anorexia and exercise bulimia?

These days everyone is just rushing behind others and wants to stand first in the race of weight looser. Today when I opened an internet blog which was about those who are slim and yet feel that they need to loose weight, which is their desired goal. I was surprised to see the madness of people for saying `no’ to food. As we all know a good food is a need of body and we can’t survive without food. Most of the time those who are victimized by obesity, they are advised to loose weight, but what if you just want to be thinner day by day. Then you need to ponder, if you are suffering from anorexia? This is more a psychological problem than a physical problem. It is generally found in women and teen age girls. They love to look slimmer. Exercise bulimia refers to the psychological problem when the patient goes to extreme and starts excessive exercises to look younger. Exercise bulimia even though is commonly found in the people. Someone begin starving just for getting a well shaped body ignoring even the usefulness of a balanced diet. People mostly hate looking mature. If you would ask a woman, her age then obviously she is not going to tell you the right age. So this becomes obsession and woman starts purgatory exercises to look more young and smart. They even are jealous from those who look slim. So for curing anorexia, you have to love yourself. Loving your self in a state where you are. You have to feel good about yourself.

Weight lose can be proven unsafe, when self induced vomiting, slimming pills and excessive exercises are done without consulting to doctor. People use fad diets to look younger. They even leave those fats, which are necessary for the maintenance of body. They start saying no to food, while their body needs food. I have seen generally girls say that they are on dieting and do injustice with themselves by not eating or less eating at the times, when they feel hungry. Anorexia refers to the state when this madness about body shape exceeds all other things, thinking every time about body shape, makes the patient situation worse.

So at a glance importance of treating anorexia and the stage of exercise bulimia can not be avoided because taking it as a normal routine cause can be devastating.

Cure Overeating Disorder With Treatments And Therapies

We all like to eat delicious food and typically out of appetite or on any big day we have a tendency to overeat. However, if this apply of overeating becomes a habit then it's high time to allow it a heavy thought. This apply of overeating disorder is termed binge eating, where someone keeps on eating food quite uncontrollably to cope up with stress, depression, anxiety or the other emotional crisis. This compulsive overeating disorder begins in either late adolescence or early adulthood. during this disorder someone keeps on consuming food all day even once they don't seem to be hungry. Binge eaters conjointly eat in secret to cover their eating tendency from others.

 

The major impact of binge eating disorder is weight gain however beside that, there are major health problems, that are related to overeating disorder, like, stress, insomnia, depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Overeating offers rise to obesity that in flip invitations varied health hazards to your body like, kind a pair of diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart diseases etc. However, you'll be able to manage eating tendency by controlling your eating habit and maintaining a healthy diet or going to eating disorder clinics. Nevertheless, when things goes out of management, then correct treatment beneath professionals are needed to cure compulsive overeating disorder.

 

Health professionals provide specialized treatment to cure overeating disorder with the presence of psychiatrists, nutritionists, therapists, obesity specialists. There are varied therapies to cure compulsive overeating disorder like cognitive- behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy. Beside the traditional course of treatment, you'll be able to conjointly be part of completely different teams of binge eaters to cure compulsive overeating disorder. There are completely different teams like, cluster therapy led by psychotherapist to traumatize healthy eating and addressing binge eating disorder, followed by support teams, that is led by trained volunteers and health professionals. You will find many eating disorder success stories in those centers which will inspire the person to continue the treatment and get rid of those kind of eating disorders.

 

Medication is additionally prescribed to cure overeating disorder however they're of very little facilitate. a number of the medicines, that are prescribed to cure compulsive overeating disorder, are appetite suppressants, that involve the utilization of medicines like, Meridia, that reduces the overeating tendency and induces weight loss however they cause serious aspect effects like increase in blood pressure, bleeding, seizures etc. Topamax is another medication, that conjointly induces weight loss however is additionally related to serious aspect effects like, fatigue, dizziness, burning sensation etc. As a binge eater conjointly suffers from varied psychological issues, therefore anti depression medicines are prescribed to cure overeating disorder. it's currently straightforward to cure overeating disorder with the assistance of health consultants and a bit care from loved ones.

Blessings of Drug Rehab

It is a myth that the addiction or drug abuse is strictly a social problem. Now there are many upgraded drug rehab which are very helpful in eradicating this problem of drug addiction. In almost all the drug rehab or at least in the upgraded drug rehab you will be under alert supervision of the highly competent staff that is much more sincere towards the process of eradication of the addiction. But you also have an important role to cooperate to the utmost to get rid from the hazard of drug addiction.

 

When once you have decided to take the help of some rehab center than your first duty is to make proper survey and choose the appropriate rehab center by simply judging how capable they are to eradicate the problem of drug addiction. The friendly and the competent staff at these drug rehab centers will ask you some questions concerned with the medical background just to know about your mental set up and about your family history. Your duty is to give your best in this session as it is helpful in the path of your recovery.

 

Before starting any curative treatment it is necessary to purge your body with the particular drug. So the process of detox is in the first place. With the process of drug detox it means the completely withdrawal of the drug. When the drug is withdrawn then each and every activities especially physical and psychological symptoms are completely assessed. Depending upon the seriousness of the drug the withdrawal process is extended or stopped. It is the most difficult phase for the drug abuser. Even you are attending the patient, you should be strong enough.

 

After the process of detox the drug abuser has to undergo various therapy sessions at the drug rehab center. Different rehab centers have different programs but usually these therapies may be of individual or even in group as per requirement. These therapy sessions are very important features of any of the rehab center. So it is necessary that it should be effective. After all these therapies there is a life skill therapy which will help you to get back to a situation where you can exercise different types of activities like interviews, social interactions and managing money.