Saturday, May 12, 2007

Arizona Eating Disorder Treatment

Arizona has numerous treatment centers to treat eating disorder. Montecatini, The Victorian, The Carolina House, The Center for Hope of the Sierras, and Remuda Ranch are one of the best eating disorder treating centers. These centers offer a variety of treatments of anorexia, bulimia, and related complaints.

The residents have been treated by a team of experts including psychiatric and principal care provider, psychologist, registered dietitian, registered nurse, and trained therapist. The professional staff provides the entire resident with the accurate treatments to live a healthy and dynamic life.

The specialized therapies offered by the centers in Arizona include art, body image, challenge course, chemical dependency, equine, movement, recreational therapy, and trauma. All the treatments given are well planned and most of the treatments have widespread multi-phase assessments. The treatments are given with additional care.

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder; it is also known as binge-eating syndrome. The bulimia nervosa-affected people swap between binge eating and purging. These people suffer from an indistinct body image, and often suffered by mood disturbances like depression. Scanning, using positron emission tomography or a PET scan, is done to collect images of the activity of the brain.

Obesity is the most critical health problem in most of the countries. It has biological, hereditary, psychological, and socio-cultural factors. The primary action should be taken by an obesity person should always be seeking the help of a physician to analyze and treat the problems. The advanced effective treatment of obesity involves teamwork among health professionals like dietician, physician, and therapist.

Anorexia nervosa is a fatal eating disorder. It involves severe weight loss; even up to 15% below the normal weight. The first course of action must be to consult a physician. Hospitalization may also require in some cases. These people are often extremely resistant to seeking help. Even though they face very serious problems, they remain convinced. Therapy provides confidential, comforting, non-judgmental, and safe setting and then treats fundamental emotional and psychological causes of eating disorders. The feelings of extreme anxiety and/or guiltiness that members of the family experience is comparable to the suicidal activity. Due to the risk, the family members must play important role to support the suffered people.

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