What are the symptoms of Anorexia, ?

Anorexia is usually as a result of the individual feeling out of control and their food intake is the one area, they can feel in charge of the situation.

There can be many triggers that lead to this out of control feeling, both depression and shock are right up there.

If this question applies to you or someone you know, please talk to someone as once you enter the vicious anorexic cycle, it is extremely hard to break away.

The common factor is guilt.

Patients feel guilty about eating or being fat.

(One girl would not eat unless her mother cut food into tiny bits and turned her head so no one saw her eat.)

Some of them want to stay little to feel protected.

I would look online for more information, or clinics for eating disorders.

Personally, I believe something about American culture going to excess while other places in the world can't afford to eat or throw away food like we do, creates the opposite spiritual extreme of obsessive guilt about eating and weight and food. I believe it is a spiritual imbalance or disorder with higher implications beyond individual psychology. The therapy and eating disorder clinics are successful in treating people, but I believe prevention would require examining the whole spectrum of humanity to find out where the extremes in behavior are coming from.

Unhealthy preoccupation with weight.

its when you keep thing your fat,and when you eat,you throw it up.karen carpenter of the carpenters(the singers)she was 1.and it killed her.