Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is s an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight and becoming fat. This fear makes individuals starve themselves and person start losing weight below its normal weight.  This eating disorder has biological, psychological, and social consequences for the sufferings.  The biological cause is the possibility that this disorder may have been there with any of parents or siblings with which it can be inherited and can be caused to many others (Hirst, 1998). Scientists have also identified few of the chromosomes related with this disorder.  The sociological cause of this disease is people’s wish to look thin and smart and to make good public appearance with zero size and largely females are the victim of Anorexia nervosa.  Thinness measures self esteem and success and this teasing on weight can be another social reason (Hirst, 1998).
 There is a restrictive type Anorexia nervosa found in teenagers where all teenagers compete with each other for eating less and consequently acquire this disease.  In this type, people do not consume weight because they have fear of gaining weight.  The sufferers are under social pressure and subsequently developed this eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa can be treated by doing counseling sessions of the patient.
 Its treatment involves counseling for psychological disturbances of the patients who have low-esteem, emotional or interpersonal conflicts and also have distorted body image.  Counselors altered the patient’s psychology so that they get never return to such eating disorder after stopping counseling sessions.
Yes Anorexia nervosa is a outcome of the fear of obesity, Obesity makes the body distorted and obese person lose their self esteem, so it can be said that Anorexia nervosa is the indirect consequence of obesity. People who have fear of becoming overweight stop consuming food which resulted in weight loss and they develop this eating disorder.
 Obesity is caused by overeating and other health related problems are the casual factors of Obesity. Obesity can be said as mental disorder and a mental health professional may need to be involved in treating an adolescent who is obese or suffers from an eating disorder or other weight-related problem (DeAngelis, 2002).