What Does sadorexia Mean
Sadorexia is not a term that is part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ). The concept is used to name an eating disorder that combines anorexia with sadomasochism .
This means that patients suffering from sadorexia reduce their food intake since they look fat, have a distorted view of their own body , but also inflict physical punishment on themselves .
Those who suffer from sadorexia always believe that they are overweight: therefore, in order to lose weight, they stop eating . Even when he has already reached a very marked degree of thinness, he still looks fat, something that leads him to maintain his posture of not eating. Simultaneously, injuries are caused through cuts, blows and other self-injuries with the intention of reducing the level of anxiety
For experts, sadomasochism is an attempt to create a distraction from the organic need for food. In this way, anorexia nervosa joins self-flogging in a very dangerous combination: the person not only suffers the consequences of poor nutrition, but also the sadism that they exert on themselves causes various physical and psychological damage.
In addition to all the above, it is important that we know another series of data about this eating disorder that is still little known in society:
-It comes to be considered as an evolution of anorexia and is much more serious and worrisome, even if it fits, that that.
-It is considered that people who suffer from this problem are people who try to find perfection, that of their body, in an imperfect world.
-As a general rule, it seems that many of the individuals who end up falling into "sadorexia" have previously had some kind of problem, either emotionally, in the family or socially.
-Some of the symptoms that are associated with sadorexia are the loss of menstruation by women, different skin problems, bradycardia, dizziness, intolerance to cold or hyperactivity. In the same way, it should not be overlooked that the person who suffers is defined by having a lack of sexual desire, because he isolates himself socially, because he maintains a remarkable secrecy in everything he does, because he suffers intestinal-type alterations or because he is committed to do endless activities alone.
-There are two types of sadorexia: acute, which is one in which the person relapses into it and then returns to the behaviors associated with anorexia or bulimia; and the chronicle, which is in which a person falls when their attitudes are totally permanent, which means that they do not return to any of the other two disorders mentioned.
Sadorexia also reveals the inability to control impulses. What in a person with a certain emotional stability is reflected in biting their nails or lips in a gentle way, in an individual with sadorexia it can become wounds caused with knives and scissors , for example.