Please someone explain!! (anorexia)?!
Question: Please someone explain!! (anorexia)!?
What are the requirements for hospitalization for anorexia!?
Also what is it like when you go in!?
Like what sort of treatments do you get!?
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Also what is it like when you go in!?
Like what sort of treatments do you get!?
No smart **** comments please - I want to know!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Treatment typically includes psychotherapy, nutrition education and medication!. If your life is at risk, you may need immediate hospitalization to stabilize your health!. You may have a treatment team of medical doctors, mental health providers and dietitians!.
Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy can help you learn how to exchange unhealthy habits for healthy ones!. You learn how to monitor your eating and your moods, develop problem-solving skills, and explore healthy ways to cope with stressful situations!. Psychotherapy can also help improve your relationships and your mood!. A type of psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy is commonly used in eating disorder treatment!. Family therapy and group therapy also may be helpful for some people!.
Nutrition education
Dietitians and other health care providers can offer information about a healthy diet and help design an eating plan to achieve a healthy weight and healthy-eating habits!. If you have binge-eating disorder, you may benefit from medically supervised weight-loss programs!.
Hospitalization
If you have serious health problems or if you have anorexia and refuse to eat or gain weight, your doctor may recommend hospitalization!. Hospitalization may be on a medical or psychiatric ward!. Some clinics specialize in treating people with eating disorders!. Some may offer day programs, rather than full hospitalization!. Specialized eating disorder programs may offer more intensive treatment over longer periods of time!.
Medications
Medication can't cure an eating disorder!. However, medications may help you control urges to binge or purge or to manage excessive preoccupations with food and diet!. Medications such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications may also help with symptoms of depression or anxiety, which are frequently associated with eating disorders!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy can help you learn how to exchange unhealthy habits for healthy ones!. You learn how to monitor your eating and your moods, develop problem-solving skills, and explore healthy ways to cope with stressful situations!. Psychotherapy can also help improve your relationships and your mood!. A type of psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy is commonly used in eating disorder treatment!. Family therapy and group therapy also may be helpful for some people!.
Nutrition education
Dietitians and other health care providers can offer information about a healthy diet and help design an eating plan to achieve a healthy weight and healthy-eating habits!. If you have binge-eating disorder, you may benefit from medically supervised weight-loss programs!.
Hospitalization
If you have serious health problems or if you have anorexia and refuse to eat or gain weight, your doctor may recommend hospitalization!. Hospitalization may be on a medical or psychiatric ward!. Some clinics specialize in treating people with eating disorders!. Some may offer day programs, rather than full hospitalization!. Specialized eating disorder programs may offer more intensive treatment over longer periods of time!.
Medications
Medication can't cure an eating disorder!. However, medications may help you control urges to binge or purge or to manage excessive preoccupations with food and diet!. Medications such as antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications may also help with symptoms of depression or anxiety, which are frequently associated with eating disorders!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Well to go into hospital for anorexia you obviously need to be under weight or at least your problem is affecting you so much it becomes at a dangerous level!. For example, not eating at all and refusing any help and not admitting theres a problem!.!.or your family if your under I think 18 is allowed to take you to hospital if they are worried for your safety and it is wise to go because you will thank them in the end!.
When you go in, your treated like any patient, they treat all illnesses the same and each person will be valued the same, anorexia or not!.
They will give you special foods, depending on what you need and they will be checking your blood sugar levels and many more things depending on how serious your condition is!. Anorexia can eventually damage most parts of the body, such as the lungs causing a person to fall unconscious and not be able to breathe it can cause irreversible bone damage and liver damage and many more things!.
It is very important to seek medical care, you won't be singled out for being anorexic it is a recognized illness and they only want to help you!.
Obviously, the way you worded the question I have no idea if your the anorexic one, someone you know is or you are just curious about it!.
It is difficult at first maybe for some people to make the first step of seeking medical care as they naturally feel scared and the road to recovery is hard but worth it in the end!.!.!.
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When you go in, your treated like any patient, they treat all illnesses the same and each person will be valued the same, anorexia or not!.
They will give you special foods, depending on what you need and they will be checking your blood sugar levels and many more things depending on how serious your condition is!. Anorexia can eventually damage most parts of the body, such as the lungs causing a person to fall unconscious and not be able to breathe it can cause irreversible bone damage and liver damage and many more things!.
It is very important to seek medical care, you won't be singled out for being anorexic it is a recognized illness and they only want to help you!.
Obviously, the way you worded the question I have no idea if your the anorexic one, someone you know is or you are just curious about it!.
It is difficult at first maybe for some people to make the first step of seeking medical care as they naturally feel scared and the road to recovery is hard but worth it in the end!.!.!.
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as best I can tell-
you can be hospitalized for anorexia when it is the opinion o a doctor that you are eating so little that you are going to die, soon, if this continues!.
I don't know if your parents can hospitalize you against your will for this!.
i believe that that feed you intravenously for a few days until you are not so near death!.
When they get you somewhat stabilized, i believe that you either start seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist, or anorexia specialist or an anorexic therapy group!.
i do not know if they give you any medicines like antidepressants!. it is possible that they only give you meds to get you back to being somewhat physically healthy!.
i have no idea about other details!. but if you are scared, i don't think they do scary stuff like electroshock treatment!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
you can be hospitalized for anorexia when it is the opinion o a doctor that you are eating so little that you are going to die, soon, if this continues!.
I don't know if your parents can hospitalize you against your will for this!.
i believe that that feed you intravenously for a few days until you are not so near death!.
When they get you somewhat stabilized, i believe that you either start seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist, or anorexia specialist or an anorexic therapy group!.
i do not know if they give you any medicines like antidepressants!. it is possible that they only give you meds to get you back to being somewhat physically healthy!.
i have no idea about other details!. but if you are scared, i don't think they do scary stuff like electroshock treatment!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Its like rehab and a psyche ward mixed!. You are treated like a crazy person, and then they force you to eat and most people become bulimic because it is a severe psychological disorder!. You can't really control it once you are deep into it!. Its tough!. ( I don't know from personal experience, i am actually over weight) But I have heard stories!. And requirements for hospitalizations would probably be inability to keep food down, and severely underweight!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Well, you could end up there when your heart stops beating and you pass out from no food!. Dehydration!.!. a number of things!. They stick a tube in you and force feed you!. No fun!. Not a walk in the park!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
your BMI has to be 17!.5 or under i thinkkkk!.
and basically you are given counseling and made to gain weight!. i think they aim to get your BMI up to a healthy 20!.
its not easy!. :s
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and basically you are given counseling and made to gain weight!. i think they aim to get your BMI up to a healthy 20!.
its not easy!. :s
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I'm not sure but you would probably go through psychiatric help and they would help you understand you are sick and help you feel better about your body!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Eating disorder!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
http://www!.webmd!.com/mental-health/anore!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Put it this way!.!. not nice!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Hospitalization for Anorexia Can Do More Harm Than Good
Feb!. 24, 2000 (Washington) -- Hospitals, usually places of healing, can be just the opposite for teen-agers struggling with anorexia nervosa, a common and often dangerous eating disorder!. A British study found that teen-agers who were hospitalized fared far worse than those who were not, and experts in the U!.S!. tell WebMD that inpatient care rarely benefits those with anorexia!.
Anorexia nervosa may afflict up to 3% of all teen-agers!. Those affected have a distorted body image, believing they are fat even though they may be thin!. They often refuse to eat and have an abnormal fear of gaining weight!. Over time, anorexics lose extreme amounts of weight and develop malnutrition!. Some girls even stop having menstrual periods!.
Although anorexia occurs in adolescents and young adults, the disorder may be lifelong!. Treatment involves improving weight and nutrition as well as long-term psychological and social therapy!.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool compared the cases of 40 teen-age girls who had been hospitalized for anorexia with those of four male and 31 female adolescents who had not had an inpatient stay for the disorder!. The patients were 14-15 years old, on average!. All were followed for two to seven years, and they and their families were interviewed!. "Outcome was defined as good if weight was maintained about 85%, menstruation had resumed and social functioning was satisfactory," writes study author S!.G!. Gowers, a professor of adolescent psychiatry!.
Good results were reported for 62% of adolescents who were never hospitalized, but that dropped to 14% for those who had been in a hospital for their illness, and two of those who had been hospitalized died!. After studying different variables, the researchers concluded that being in the hospital was linked to a poorer prognosis for these teen-agers!.
"The finding that inpatient treatment is associated with poor outcome in anorexia nervosa is not new, but it is good that Gowers [and others] have reopened the issue," says George Hsu, MD, director of the Eating Disorders Program at New England Medical Center and a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, both in Boston!. Hsu, who reviewed the study for WebMD, adds that his own research found that hospitalization was linked to poor outcomes at four to 10 years after the start of the illness!.
"There are two possible explanations," Hsu says!. "One, patients who need inpatient treatment are sicker in the first place; two, there is something in the inpatient treatment approach that makes the illness worse!. I suspect that both possibilities are true!. I have certainly met patients who seem more entrenched in their [behavior] after inpatient treatment!. It is certainly a topic that needs further study!. !.!.!. I think we should adhere to the American Psychiatric Association [APA] treatment guidelines for inpatient admission for anorexia nervosa for now and wait for someone to do the proper studies!."Www@Answer-Health@Com
Feb!. 24, 2000 (Washington) -- Hospitals, usually places of healing, can be just the opposite for teen-agers struggling with anorexia nervosa, a common and often dangerous eating disorder!. A British study found that teen-agers who were hospitalized fared far worse than those who were not, and experts in the U!.S!. tell WebMD that inpatient care rarely benefits those with anorexia!.
Anorexia nervosa may afflict up to 3% of all teen-agers!. Those affected have a distorted body image, believing they are fat even though they may be thin!. They often refuse to eat and have an abnormal fear of gaining weight!. Over time, anorexics lose extreme amounts of weight and develop malnutrition!. Some girls even stop having menstrual periods!.
Although anorexia occurs in adolescents and young adults, the disorder may be lifelong!. Treatment involves improving weight and nutrition as well as long-term psychological and social therapy!.
Researchers at the University of Liverpool compared the cases of 40 teen-age girls who had been hospitalized for anorexia with those of four male and 31 female adolescents who had not had an inpatient stay for the disorder!. The patients were 14-15 years old, on average!. All were followed for two to seven years, and they and their families were interviewed!. "Outcome was defined as good if weight was maintained about 85%, menstruation had resumed and social functioning was satisfactory," writes study author S!.G!. Gowers, a professor of adolescent psychiatry!.
Good results were reported for 62% of adolescents who were never hospitalized, but that dropped to 14% for those who had been in a hospital for their illness, and two of those who had been hospitalized died!. After studying different variables, the researchers concluded that being in the hospital was linked to a poorer prognosis for these teen-agers!.
"The finding that inpatient treatment is associated with poor outcome in anorexia nervosa is not new, but it is good that Gowers [and others] have reopened the issue," says George Hsu, MD, director of the Eating Disorders Program at New England Medical Center and a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University, both in Boston!. Hsu, who reviewed the study for WebMD, adds that his own research found that hospitalization was linked to poor outcomes at four to 10 years after the start of the illness!.
"There are two possible explanations," Hsu says!. "One, patients who need inpatient treatment are sicker in the first place; two, there is something in the inpatient treatment approach that makes the illness worse!. I suspect that both possibilities are true!. I have certainly met patients who seem more entrenched in their [behavior] after inpatient treatment!. It is certainly a topic that needs further study!. !.!.!. I think we should adhere to the American Psychiatric Association [APA] treatment guidelines for inpatient admission for anorexia nervosa for now and wait for someone to do the proper studies!."Www@Answer-Health@Com