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Lola Álvarez 07/05/2024 17:40h.
Lola Álvarez in ‘What have I missed, son?’ Uppers.
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In this new installment of ‘What have I missed, son?’, Lola Álvarez addresses eating disorders
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Before reaching an anorexia or bulimia disorder, there are intermediate states in which the disease grows, but can go unnoticed.
Cibophobia or the irrational fear of some foods
Taking a long time to eat, spread the food for the plate or preferring to be alone at lunch or dinner time are unnoticed signs that there may be an underlying eating disorder. The pedagogue and psychotherapist Lola Álvarez talks about all this in the third installment of ‘What have I missed, son?’the new Uppers format in which this expert, specialized in adolescent behavior, will map some of the most common disorders, such as the risk of suffer depressionlas addictions or, as in this case, the conflicts related to food.
Little-known signs
Before reaching a disorder anorexia o bulimia, there are intermediate states in which the disease grows, but can go unnoticed. As Lola Álvarez explains, some signs may have been normalized in some family environments, but if they are accompanied by a significant weight lossit would be reason for medical consultation.
What signs are we referring to? One of them is to look almost obsessively at the ingredients of food products, count calorieswanting to eat alone, scattering food on the plate so that it looks like it is being eaten and, most importantly, spend time in the bathroom after eating.
In the opinion of Lola Álvarez, eating disorders are complex because they respond to states of depression and, simultaneously, anxiety, and they are multifactorial. As the expert points out, “In mental health, a single symptom can have different causes. And they must be investigated.”
It can be overcome
Lola Alvarez is degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona, master’s degree in Psychoanalytic Observation Studies and doctoral training as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. The expert has also been trained as psychoanalytic psychotherapist of adults and has been providing support to children and adolescents for thirty years. She has participated in diagnostic teams for neurological developmental disorders, such as autism and ADD.
In the new Uppers format, it will show the lights and shadows of adolescent dynamics, a period in which, as this pedagogue and psychotherapist explains in her new book, also titled ‘What have I missed?’ (Planet), you can intervene in areas of improvement with the right help.
