In the age of thinness and bony beauty and the rise of weight loss campaigns, people are no stranger to the name “anorexia”. Kate Winslet, who rose to fame as the star of “Titanic”, impressed people with her round body, but she also suffered from anorexia: “When I was 19 years old, I thought thin was beautiful and I had a nervous breakdown.” After six months of struggle she finally regained the intention to eat, and later received encouragement from her husband to regain confidence in her full figure and even in herself. The vast majority of the time, anorexia and bulimia are mean twins, and psychologists call both symptoms eating disorders. Generally speaking, the more dieters diet, the more they want to anorexia the most basic symptoms: subjective belief that they are too fat, very strong fear of being fat, give themselves a lower weight limit, endlessly reduce weight, smell “fat”; the beginning is afraid to eat, to the late stage of the disease, extreme lack of appetite, body wasting, weight than At least 15% lower than normal, at least 25% less than their original weight; women stop menstruating for more than 3 months. Eating. There is a strong desire for food, such a diet will not last a few days can not resist the temptation of food. Gorging. In order not to cause fat, the use of eating laxatives or self-induced vomiting method, so that the food eaten quickly out of the body, and then continue to start dieting, can not control and then binge eating a meal. So on and so forth, the symptoms of bulimia appear. Later, in order to control their appetite, they simply take food suppressants on their own, but these drugs cause depression, reduced responsiveness, or even a complete lack of appetite, and they begin to eat anorexia again. For this reason, anorexia nervosa is commonly known as “weight loss syndrome”. The age of onset of eating disorders is mainly between 15 and 30 years old, and the number of women suffering from the disease is about 10-20 times higher than that of men. In the United States, 8 million people suffer from anorexia nervosa. Twenty percent of these people die because of anorexia nervosa. The incidence of the disease in China has shown a significant increase in recent years, especially in the cities of the more economically and culturally developed regions where the number of sufferers has increased significantly. The demand for trisomy is only a symptom, according to clinical psychologists. The symptoms of anorexia nervosa are mainly related to psychological factors. It is not caused by digestive system diseases. People who have excessive demands on their circumference often see a beautiful body as an important part of their self-worth. Although they generally refuse to admit or reveal this layer of thought to others, the pursuit of a slim figure has actually become a basic rule in their lives. Blind dieting for fear of gaining weight causes loss of appetite, which gradually progresses to anorexia. In addition, mental trauma, persistent depression, sexual worries and other psychological problems may lead to eating disorders under certain conditions, experts believe that many times, eating disorder people demanding their own body is only an appearance, the deeper reason is often he (she) frustrated in other areas, can not achieve their desired purpose, and turn to demanding self body. The most typical is Princess Diana many people remember a scene from her interview: the noble princess nodded slightly, a pair of pale blue eyes raised upward, flowing infinite melancholy, about the unhappy marriage and the pressure of royal life, so that she fell into anorexia and gluttony for a considerable period of time, repeatedly committing suicide, slit her wrists, hit the cabinet … …It was this grief that made it impossible for the British to ever forgive their future monarch. It is no coincidence that Elizabeth Taylor was also plagued by bulimia. After the death of Richard Burton, whom she called “the greatest lover of my life”, in a plane crash. She felt so desperate that she spent her days drinking and also developed bulimia nervosa. It took about two years for her to emerge from the shadows. It can be said that there are profound psychological reasons behind any case of eating disorder. Elite Appearance: Thin Interestingly, people with anorexia always see themselves as fatter than they actually are and resort to excessive dieting to counteract this perception. American psychologists have done an experiment: anorexia patients were asked to estimate the width of their face, chest and hips and compare them with the normal group control. It was found that the anorexic patients’ estimates of their own bodies were too wide. Even though they were already skinny, most of the patients thought they or some part of them were “fat” and were upset about it. Numerous studies have found that patients’ estimates of their abdominal, chest, hip, and leg circumferences are 10% to 15% larger than they actually are. Why are poor people so “self-abusive”? The popularity of slimness as beauty is naturally an important reason. But there is also a deeper social factor. In the previous section of the bestseller list, there is a description of “Style”: “Today, obesity is a sign of the lower middle class. Compared to the upper middle class and the middle class, the lower middle class is four times more obese than the former. We are convinced that there is an elite appearance in this country: “It requires women to be thin.” An individual’s physical appearance in a consumerist-dominated society means: whether you have enough money and leisure time to work out; whether you can eat a daily dinner with precisely calculated calories and fat amounts instead of fast food and beer; whether you can afford expensive weight loss products. In all such cases, judging by your appearance is enough to draw conclusions about your social status. More and more people are discovering that being thin is, in fact, very expensive. The concept of “ideal weight” is said to have been introduced by some clinicians, but in reality, only 5% of people are said to be able to reach their ideal weight. To prove that they are not poor, people are frantically trying to lose weight. However, statistics show that the main dangers of eating disorders: severe malnutrition causes a decline in body functions, severe anemia, electrolyte disorders, slowed heart rate, decreased immunity, endocrine disorders, and mental symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia, emotional instability and compulsive thinking, and in severe cases, secondary depression. In less than 65% of the standard weight, the patient’s mortality rate is up to 10-15%. Early treatment should be carried out. The pathological behavior in @ is determined by a pathological way of thinking psychotherapy is most important to correct some of these distorted ways of thinking: “I am too fat. Being fat makes me unattractive. Losing weight will make me more loved and I’ll be happier than I am now.” An educated psychiatrist will not try to simply convince a patient to give up losing weight, he will only emphasize that there is a proper limit to everything and after that good things can become bad things, and so is weight loss. A girl is as thin as a bone with a vegetable face and there is no beauty to speak of? Not to mention the delay in work and study. The doctor carefully asked the patient: what is your current weight) what is the normal weight of a girl of your height; what is your ideal weight? What would you do for this ideal weight? If both parties can agree, the psychologist and the patient will work out a detailed plan, including daily food and exercise, and then strictly implement the plan step by step to achieve the “ideal weight”. Of course, there is a scientific standard for this ideal weight. If anxiety arises during this process, the doctor will use relaxation techniques to eliminate strong emotional reactions by instructing the patient to sequentially relax the muscles of the entire body through cueing. When the anxiety is reduced. The program can then proceed smoothly. As soon as the patient has made a little progress, like trying to control the craving for food during the day, the doctor will give praise and approval and other moral encouragement to the patient, and also reward himself or herself with a small gift and invite himself or herself to a movie or concert. This is to provide positive reinforcement for well-adapted behavior. This is called “token therapy” in psychotherapy. People with eating disorders often face stresses and traumas in their lives that they cannot cope with, and an understanding psychologist will be sensitive to the repressed pain in the patient’s life. As the conversation progresses he will inspire the patient to “go out on your own and strive for a little bit of joy in your life, without desperately trying to please others that looking at dieting is not going to get you what you want.” If the patient realizes that there are more important things in life than weight loss and gradually gets rid of the childish and imperfect aspects of his personality, then the significance of psychotherapy does not stop at restoring normal appetite and weight, but also enables the patient to face the whole life with a more mature and healthy mindset.