In anorexia nervosa, there is a tremendous fear of being fat leading to extreme weight control behaviours such as dieting, fasting, vomiting, exercising to extremes and abusing laxatives or slimming pills.

This results in a severely underweight state. Yet surprisingly, the sufferer still feels “fat” and continues to persist in her extreme behaviour.

Stress is also related to bulimia, where patients are not underweight but binge eat (loss of control over eating, usually leading to larger amounts consumed than one usually eats) and vomit.

Any suggestions to prevent this ?