Some teens are lucky to be on their ideal size; no matter how much calorie they put in everyday they simply have fast metabolism. But some teens don’t feel as lucky because of the extra pounds that are clinging in different areas of their bodies. And well, not most of these teens can handle the pressure of trying to lose weight and pressure of feeling jealousy towards other people. Thus, resulting to trying out different types of dieting programs and whether or not it would work, some of them start having different kinds of eating disorders.
Bulimia is an eating disorder that involves binge eating then vomiting afterwards. This process is called purging. Most teens who are bulimic tend to keep their condition a secret which is the reason why it is a disorder that is very hard to get rid off. Bulimia is a psychological disorder that will soon involve most other parts of the body if not given attention to.
Bulimics have a lot of attempts to stop their habit but they are weighing down two fears: fear of the bad effect of purging to their bodies vs. fear of gaining weight. Unfortunately for bulimics that latter wins the battle more often. What’s so hard about having bulimia is that it develops into an unconscious choice, no matter how much you fight it, you become unconscious that you keep on repeatedly doing it. The best chance you have is to open up and tell someone about your problem preferably a medical professional.
Press have been watching boot camps very closely for anything that may stink enough to publish in their tabloids. Something that is very unavoidable since it is children’s welfare that we are talking about. After all the bad publicity, why would you even consider sending your child to a boot camp?
Simple. Boot camp is heaven compared to the uncertainties that your child will face in a prison yard. Be aware that if your child does any crime, a boot camp is a substitute for regular prison where your child will be mixed with burglars, rapists and murderers — once he finally come to the legal age. If your child hasn’t done anything that may cost him a couple of years in prison and you are afraid that at the rate that he is going at the moment, he might be heading there soon enough, send him to a boot camp. Sending him there may not discipline him but this will make him experience how it is to be ordered around constantly, act in a schedule set by someone else and associate himself with strangers who may have worse behavior than himself. In a boot camp, he will experience being treated equally with other teens, he cannot have his way or do the pranks that he got used to doing. There, bad acts are confronted, you can’t just turn your back and wallow in your own world as if you didn’t do anything bad.
This entry is not supposed to be selling the idea of boot camps to parents. It is a warning to the teens that boot camp is only the start of the many consequences that you will have to put up with in case you cause any trouble. And mind you, being in a boot camp is not optional for you, you will have to convince your parents not to send you there because only they can decide your fate when it all boils down to this.
In the latest statistics, it showed that the number of people who practice self-mutilation has increased. Health AtoZ reports that a source says that around 0.75 % of the American population are in the habit of either cutting, biting, bruising or even amputating themselves in severe cases. That percentage seem low but that is actually 75 mutilators in a thousand people and that doesn’t include those who are secretly doing the habit for fear of being discovered.
A high percentage of people who are into hurting themselves are teenage girls. There is no concrete reason as to why they do this but one of them is due to violence itself. Some of them where physically abused causing them to be disgusted with themselves. They may also direct their anger in form of self-mutilation at the person violating them since they do not have the power/strength to show their anger against the aggressor.
Self mutilation is starting to become common even for teenagers who are merely filled with teenage angst but there are other people who feels that they have deeper need for mutilation. HealthAtoZ enumerates them as:
Self-mutilation relieves unbearable tension or anxiety Many self-mutilators do report feeling relief after an episode of self-cutting or other injury.
Self-mutilation is a technique for triggering the body’s biochemical responses to pain. Stress and trauma release endorphins, which are the body’s natural pain-killing substances
Self-mutilation is a way of stopping a dissociative episode. Dissociation is a process in which the mind splits off, or dissociates, certain memories and thoughts that are too painful to keep in conscious awareness. Some people report that they feel “numb” or “dead” when they dissociate, and self-injury allows them to feel “alive.”
Self-mutilation is a symbolic acting-out of the larger culture’s mistreatment of women. This theory is sometimes offered to explain why the great majority (about 75%) of self-mutilators are girls and women
In an episode of Oprah they featured some people who admitted into having a bipolar disorder. A previous entry discussed the characteristic of Bipolar disorder as an onset of conspicuously arduous mood (mania) followed by sudden episodes of total depressionor vise versa. In simpler explanation, the person with bipolar disorder may be acting very normal one minute and the next thing you know he will be in a rage doing extremely destructive things that he doesn’t normally do. This is one of the most common alibis that has been reported to have happened in certain cases involving an extreme misbehavior. This is when they use the phrase “ to plead insanity”.
In Oprah they featured a woman who is experiencing that kind of condition, she was interviewed while she was in her cell imprisoned for killing her own son, strangling him while immersing him in a tub of water. They even played her 911 call in the show where she admitted to killing her son. They brought him to the hospital but he died a few days later. She felt remorse with what her disorder made her do but she never pleaded insanity for it and was convicted for murder. Having this kind of disorder is very difficult especially since the most common person that you are with are the people you love- your family. If you would keep on ignoring the possibility, you are endangering not only yourself but your entire family and any person surrounding you.
Some people who have bipolar disorder has already asked for professional help. They are given medication that can help them regulate their emotions and it has so far helped them cope with the disorder and have healthier relationship with their families. One example is Maurice Benard, an award winning actor who suffered from being a bipolar for years. In one of his roles, he admitted to have let go of his character to places that he shouldn’t be. This caused him to have a very severe attack that kept him in an institution for some time.
