• April 26, 2024

Many times the appearance is usually very important for people, so fashions are chosen or food disorders develop such as bulimia, that seriously damage your health.

I have several friends who suffer, or have suffered, bulimia . According to the definition of Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, This eating disorder consists of the appearance of recurrent episodes of voracity followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and fasting or excessive exercise.

As with anorexia, the person who suffersbulimia He does not see his body or his weight objectively. I can assure you that my friends have had a bad time, very badly.

Therefore, a team of researchers proposes a new treatment consisting of a special mirror to help treat the girls with bulimia . 

The team of researchers led by the Dr. Sandra Díaz-Ferrer of the University of Granada (Spain) conducted an interesting study that could improve the treatment of bulimia nervous. With the participation of 29 women, whose main characteristic was their high body dissatisfaction and having been diagnosed with the disorder, the scientists applied several techniques.

One of them, which might seem simpler, was to propose to these women that they look at their body in the mirror and describe it in a neutral and objective way; the idea was to know what they really felt when they saw their reflection.

Emotions and negative thoughts

The purpose of the study, which has been published in the journal Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry , it is not that women change their bodies, "but that they are capable of accepting and loving them as they are".

Dr. Diaz insists that women should not allow mirrors to become enemies. "The mirror should be the means to reflect the light that each person has, something that does not understand fashions or beauty ideals," he says.And what do you see when you look in the mirror?

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