Information source: Guangxi Disease Control
Food can bring energy and nutrition to the human body
Delicious food can also make people feel happy
Do you know?
Eating status can actually be
reflects the mental health of a person
01 Decreased appetite
When a person continues to lose appetite, it is suggested that depression may exist. In a depressed state, people will lack appetite and eating becomes a task. Not only food, nothing can attract to for patients with depression. Patients are always unable to be happy, lack a pleasant experience, and even lose hope for life over time. Patients with depression may also have symptoms such as sleep disorder , physical fatigue, decreased sexual desire, and weight loss.
02 Changes in food consumption and abnormal eating behaviors
Due to different gender, age, work intensity and lifestyle, everyone's food consumption is also different. When a person's food volume suddenly changes compared to his/herself, it is suggested that there may be an eating disorder.
Anorexia is an eating disorder in which patients intentionally control their diet, resulting in a significant lower than normal standard. Patients will deliberately reduce calorie intake and increase consumption, and will have endless pursuit of weight loss, which will be accompanied by body image disorders. Even if they are thin, they are still fat in the mirror. There is also a kind of eating disorder that frequently has irresistible appetite for eating, eating too much or binge eating, and after eating, they use various methods to lose weight due to worrying about gaining weight. It is clinically called bulimia. Because of fear of gaining weight, patients will have clearance behaviors, such as vomiting and using laxatives.
In addition, some people also eat emotionally, and they also eat a lot in a short period of time, but the patient does not remove the behavior. This eating behavior will have an emotional regulation effect, but the regulation is only temporary. In the long run, the patient will be accompanied by a feeling of self-blame, guilt, and emptiness, which is more likely to be accompanied by depression.
03 Gastrointestinal discomfort
In life, some people will experience gastrointestinal discomfort after encountering some negative events. No abnormalities are seen after examination, or the existing symptoms cannot be explained. Discomfort recurs, which seriously affects the patient's quality of life. It is clinically called somatic form disorder . The disease is also a mental illness that requires a combined intervention of drug therapy and psychotherapy.
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