Medication For Eating Disorders

Prozac is the most common drug prescribed for eating disorders.
There are many opinions on the treatment of eating disorders with Prozac.
Some people say that Prozac has been helpful to them in their fight against eating disorders. But many people say it makes no difference in how they felt, and even created more health problems than they had before taking it.

Why is it that some people benefit from this medication and others not? And if Prozac really be a first line medication for eating disorders?

First, let's look at why Prozac as an eating disorder treatment could be effective.
Prozac is an antidepressant. And since up to half of people with eating disorders suffer from more psychological disorders like depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder, Prozac can help a patient in the treatment of these disorders.
In addition, Prozac is intended to restore and maintain healthy levels of serotonin called brain that controls mood, emotions and appetite. Thus, by controlling moods, feelings and appetite Prozac makes a victim feel better and more in control.

So what is the other side of using this medicine? Not all people with eating disorders suffer from depression or other psychological problems. So, if people take Prozac just to restore and maintain their level of serotonin in their brains, they develop drug resistance and need higher doses of Prozac and more over time. Then if they stop the treatment or decreasing the dose they just fall back into their old habits immediately and may also suffer from severe withdrawal symptoms.

The question arises: how can we make use of this drug more effective for more persons?

Most conventional medical professionals believe that the most effective approach is an integrated treatment strategy: one that uses a combination of Prozac treatment of active advice to treat eating disorders. But any treatment board should include active self-help, self-education and family therapy.

The problem is many good people on Prozac, failing to control their eating disorder while on their own after returning from the therapist or clinic, so sliding backwards.

People should not think they can simply walk into the office of a doctor and get a pill and it's the end of it, when suddenly the eating disorder disappears the day overnight.
It is an infallible remedy for failure.

If you have been prescribed a pill (like Prozac), you should immediately seek further counseling and education about your disease. You have to develop good strategies of self-control, self-evaluation and self-presentation. Without mastery of all of these strategies you will always fall old eating habits despite the help of Prozac.

From mutual aid and self-education are important because they teach the victim of any act on their own at home, like life eating disorder with you at home and not in the physician's office.
I suggest you start your self-education and self-help reading books. One of the best books on the management of eating disorders and the treatment is http://www.mom-please-help.com

In conclusion, it is fair to say that Prozac can be very useful for some people with eating disorders, especially those that combine treatment with active behavior. But there are many others who will not benefit at all: because of individual differences, consumer harm or other reasons. So, learn more about the disorder and finding other ways to improve yourself might be the right way to win against your eating disorder.