Causal relationship between anorexia and conditions of upbringing

Anorexia is a loss of appetite and, as a consequence, a decrease in the body weight of a person. Anorexia and its symptoms that manifest themselves in adolescence are usually already seen in a child in preschool childhood, or the parents noted the difficulty of breastfeeding a newborn. Therefore, the cause-and-effect relationship of this disease has not only a social origin, but it is also related to the psychology of feeding the baby, with an attitude toward his upbringing in the earliest periods of life.

The cause and effect are phenomena of the same order, which are interrelated in time. If the time intervals have a significant period, parents and specialists will need to make efforts to analyze the relationship between anorexia and other types of eating behavior of the child and the specific conditions of parenting. When a child detects a protest to eat, parents turn to the doctors: pediatricians, endocrinologists, neuropathologists who, on the basis of symptoms, prescribe medications to eliminate pathological manifestations, i.e., the effects of anorexia. Whereas, in parallel, one should turn to a psychologist, psychoanalyst or psychotherapist, for whom the causes of the disease, the causal relationship of anorexia and the conditions of upbringing become the object of research.

In early childhood, the cause of anorexia may be an improper diet of the baby, when the mother feeds it without taking into account individual characteristics, according to the schedule, which is standard set by doctors. Every parent should know that this schedule is only advisory. If the child cries and asks to eat before the appointed time, it means that he has a need for it - perhaps because of a lack of eaten milk in the previous feeding or because of the special course of the metabolic process in the body. Forced feeding is another reason that results in resistance to feeding, refusal to eat, active regurgitation and even vomiting. The causal relationship of violence in feeding and resistance to it can manifest itself in adolescence as a protest against any violence by parents: their demands to be an excellent student, a good athlete or a musician.

Psychologists established a relationship between the symbolism of food and the symbolism of the mother, who were the first objects in the life of the child. The intake of food for the newborn is always connected with the presence of the mother, her breast and milk. Refusal of food in later periods of childhood is like "giving up mother". The stronger the social pressure on the part of the mother, the stronger may be the anorexia in the adolescent. The first manifestations of it are a refusal to eat together, when adults impose food and control the process. Refusing to eat means giving up control of your parents.

A teenager can rationalize his behavior by pointing to cause and effect relationships that are of social origin: fashion to be thin, ridicule of the leaders of the group over its fullness, imitation of idols. In fact, being brought up in a family where the power of the mother or father is despotic, the child is brought up in submission to them, as well as to other, more powerful and meaningful figures. Therefore, when analyzing the reasons, it is necessary to discuss together with him his sacrificial and subordinate position, the desire to please someone or to be like someone, but not to be yourself. The choice he can make independently - to remain subordinate or self-affirm in the team and in the family.

Causal connection is immersion in the distant past, the search for the cause of today's peculiarities of the course of the disease. The study of this connection can also take place in the opposite way, starting from the symptoms. Thus, a strong weight loss before the period of puberty can slow down the development of the body, the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics in adolescents. Therefore, the reason can be looked for in the child's desire to regress in the early childhood period, and not to grow up - to remain an "eternal child" by manipulating his body, rather than becoming an adult, responsible and independent.

The causal relationship in the appearance of anorexia in a child can be traced through the process of imitation of parents who themselves constantly observe diets lose weight. Unconscious program for the destruction of the body can be a family program and start working from the moment of the first weight loss to the mother after giving birth. The more the child's dependence on the parents, the more likely that the desire to lose weight, eat less and have a small weight becomes an unconscious child's need.