Anorexia leads to mental disorders

Do adolescents have experienced at a young age anorexia, increased risk of mental illness in adult life, reported the Swedish doctors from the University of Geteborga. Doctors monitored the children with a diagnosis of conduct violations of food and healthy participants in the control group since 1985. This study is unique, it reflects long-term development of anorexia, experts believe. After the 18-year review found that early anorexia led to the failure of labor 25% of the participants by reason of mental disorder or disease, developed as a result of malnutrition. A 39% was recorded at least one psychiatric disorder. The most common consequence of anorexia was obsessive-compulsive disorder, characterized by intrusive excessive emotion. Anorexia is more common among adolescent girls, and develops in the nervous motivated by that breach are 1% of adolescent girls and ten times less than boys. The deliberate denial of food can last a long time and causes of voluntary fasting is a great stress or constant thoughts about his own unpleasantness. Experts stressed that anorexia - a disease with very poor prognosis, as many young people for life harming your body and psyche, and every fifth patient died. Women who have anorexia can often become infertile, and have a high risk of premature delivery and postpartum depression. In addition, these women become mothers, too worried about the weight of her child.