The eating disorder known as anorexia is mainly induced by low self-esteem leading to dangerous catastrophic complication when the person becomes to suffer in silence from unreal, not existing weight problems. All human is fighting with painful feelings of his own person and image sometimes and some of us even get obsessions caused by the lack of the most wanted feeling of self-worth.



In order to be able to cure this condition we must get to understand the reasons lying behind the manifestations of anorexia. Many persons get compliment quite a lot but cannot accept them and refuse to agree with other people's opinion about their outer image. A very frequent but also much avoided and not discussed cause of turning a person into an anorexic is an earlier physical, sexual or emotional abuse dating from childhood that tends to have dangerous repercussions. The emotional abuse is the most frequently encountered one as most of us have at least once been victims of a person using us to fulfill its own needs.

Emotional abuse can also mean the lack of attention especially from family and parents, in the time when it is most required. Many adolescents have no material or economical problems but must face the lack of emotional support which makes them feel something is wrong with them. Many parents cannot deal with their children's emotional needs as they have been or still are exposed to a sort of misunderstanding and personally require attention and emotional support.

Some affected teenagers manage to pay attention to their parents? needs but are mostly ignored and the care and concern is never turned back. Parents are glad to have someone to talk to and share their thoughts but most often are unable to do the same for the child and spend quality time with him/her and listen to its concerns. In such cases the adolescent feels it is needed but at the same time begins to develop feelings of abuse and abandon, loneliness, frustration and low self ?esteem and turns into an anorexic.

The sensation of low self worth leads to a type of addiction when the child tries to hide who he really is or become someone else out of deception, denial and lies. Feeling fat keeps the person busy and controls the cycle of frustration. To avoid the others from seeing who they really are and out of fear from deception, teenagers get into a game of control and try to control others and finally themselves by excessive actions. Many children start by using their condition to make their parents notice them and become accepted.

Anyone with a low self-esteem can develop such dangerous conditions like the eating disorder called anorexia. We advise anyone with the disease-related symptoms to seek for professional help.