Anorexia is eating nothing. The term anorexia alone is insufficient because people afflicted with this disorder have not just lost their appetites.
An meaning ‘the lack of’ and orexia meaning appetite. Anorexics do not lack of appetite, they afraid of it.
When referring to food appetite, anorexia means the obsessive state of food avoidance that translates into self-starvation.
Weight concerns and fear of fat transform into a hatred of food and a hatred of the body because the body demands then nurturance of food.
Rather than losing their desire to eat, those suffering from anorexia report spending 70 to 85 percent of each day thinking about food but denying their bodies even when driven by hunger pangs.
It is the achievement of overcoming one’s desire to eat. The anorectic women is accustomed to feeling like a helpless failure, unable to accomplish anything meaningful in her life.
Her capacity to stifle her appetite is, in contrast a marvelous achievement, and that is a central part of the appeal of anorexia.
Medical and psychiatric journals prefer the term anorectic to describe the clinical symptoms restriction, distorted a body image, and catastrophic weight loss.
They often want to eat so badly that they cook for and feed other, study menus, read and concoct recipes and go to bed and wake up thinking about food.
They simply don’t allow themselves to have it; they do, they relentlessly pursue any means to rid of it.
Most anorexic patients start their diet typically enough, It is the persistent of these diets that sets them apart and signifies their abnormality.
This persistence, or relentlessness, happens because the diet ‘clicks’ in the sense that it provides much needed psychological gratification and defensive capability.
Giving up the identity of anorexia is extremely difficult at any age. Anorexia may often be comforting to patients; it provides their lives with structure, purpose and a means to be successful.
The meaning of anorexia
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