Loss of appetite can be traced to some psychosomatic cause such as physical pain or mental disturbance due to anxiety, fear, overwork, etc when a mental disturbance continues for some time or is repetitive over sometime and is difficult to dislodge, the patient loses his appetite.
For many patients, loss of appetite is often the first sign of an incipient depression and return of appetite may be the first sign that it is beginning to lift.
If that happens, the appetite control center of the brain might be affected, signaling that we’re not hungry even we should be. We might lose our appetite and tolerance for food when we’re sick – even though need nourishment to get well. Or emotional stress may affect desire for and ability to handle food.
Loss of appetite due to anorexia is a serious disorder, much more complicated than a simple loss of appetite, and it indicates a psychological aversion to food.
The disorder usually, but not always, occurs in adolescent girls who are sacred of becoming fat and developed a wrong impression of their own body image while growing up.
The loss of appetite
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