Bulimia Nervosa from a Psychological Perspective What is bulimia nervosa?

Let's look at another such example.

The author once came into contact with a female classmate named Leilei: when she was in high school, she developed a strange problem of overeating and being unable to control herself.

Leilei goes to the store every day to buy a lot of snacks. No matter in the dormitory, classroom or on the road, she eats non-stop. She will not stop eating until her stomach feels uncomfortable.

If you don't eat what you want, you won't be interested in class or self-study, and you won't even be able to sleep well at night.

Due to constant overeating, Leilei's body obviously gained weight and became more and more bloated.

She was so distressed that she repeatedly vowed not to eat snacks or eat indiscriminately again.

But as soon as she walked into the store or the canteen, she couldn't control herself, especially when she was in a bad mood, she would eat more.

Eating too much puts a heavy burden on her digestive system, so she is always drowsy and cannot be energetic in class. She doesn't want to study in class at night and goes to bed early. As a result, her academic performance plummets.

Accompanied by her parents, Leilei went to the hospital for a check-up and found that she did not have any physical problems.

But at the psychiatrist, the doctor told Leilei and her parents: Leilei suffered from a disease called bulimia nervosa due to too much study pressure.

Behavioral signs of "bulimia" In the final analysis, bulimia nervosa is a mental illness in a certain sense.

Just like the "Fat Woman" and "Fat Brother" in "Slimming Man and Woman".

The fat woman was actually very thin. Due to emotional frustration, she could only "eat" as a way to vent her emotions.

Even later, it seemed difficult for her to stop eating like this.

Because she has completely fallen into this magic circle of "eating", it is impossible to just rely on not eating.

Finally, with the support of her fat brother, she finally succeeded in losing weight.

That's because she found her heart.

As for the British Princess Diana, few people may know that under her beautiful and noble appearance, she once used "eating" to relieve herself of the troubles buried deep in her heart.

On the night before the wedding of the century, Prince Charles's gifts and letters failed to help the future princess calm down the distress that had been brewing in her heart for months.

On that night when she was supposed to sleep peacefully, she ate a lot of food and eventually fell ill.

In Diana's future court life, conflict, anxiety, pain, and melancholy always accompanied her.

She often had to eat large amounts of food, even sneaking into the kitchen to find food to fill her belly quickly.

These are largely due to the tense living atmosphere and environment.

It seems that bulimia nervosa is largely caused by the stress or anxiety in people's lives.

Generally speaking, people who are weak in character and value external evaluation are more likely to develop bulimia. In terms of gender, women are also much more likely to develop bulimia than men.

In fact, eating is normal for ordinary people, but excessive eating has become a disease.

These people easily use things that seem normal to others to relieve their anxiety. Sometimes they don't even know why they have to eat or shop when they are unhappy.

In fact, their behavior is just a way to ignore their current pressure.

Take people who are on a diet to lose weight, for example. Because today's society advocates "thin is beautiful," they are not confident and start to use various methods to stay slim, such as limiting food intake.

Over time, they slowly embarked on the path of anorexia, but in the end they could not stand the torture of hunger, and finally resorted to eating large amounts of food to gain temporary satisfaction.

In this way, anorexia is likely to transform into bulimia, creating a vicious cycle of "bulimia - anorexia - bulimia".

Experts look at "bulimia". Psychologists believe that bulimia is a way to deal with stress and unpleasant feelings. Patients do not need to eat physically, but psychologically they feel long-term hunger.

What needs to be pointed out is that it does not really play the role of relieving psychological stress. Instead, it makes "eating" an inappropriate way to deal with anxiety, loneliness and anger.

Often, people with bulimia develop bulimia to deal with more serious psychological problems than overeating and preoccupation with weight, such as severe anxiety.

"Gluttony" and Middle School Students So, how far is this disease from middle school students?

In fact, there are many middle school students around us who have reported this symptom, just like Leilei mentioned above, but her symptoms are more obvious.

We know that there are many reasons that cause anxiety among middle school students. The most direct ones are the pressure from study and exams, as well as from life, family, and other things. Therefore, many students often cannot help but choose "eating" as their first choice.

A way to vent to get rid of tension and get rid of unpleasant moods.

Although they don't realize they are letting off steam while eating.

There is nothing wrong with using different ways to vent your emotions. For example, "eating" is not harmful as long as it does not exceed the limit.

Just like when they feel depressed, girls often eat high-calorie foods, such as chocolate and other foods, to increase their energy and make themselves feel hot and excited.