Laugh Your Way To Beating An Eating Disorder

As to doctor and as an of an eating disorder the am always interested in any new ways to treat eating disorders. It is to known fact that eating disorders are disorders of thinking, disorders of control, disorders of coping, disorders of identity and disorders of values and lifestyle. I know from this point of view how I give you think laughter would affect eating disorder sufferers mind? Most of us have heard the famous phrase “laughter is the best healer “.

And this is true. There to are to lot of examples where laughter has helped people to get better and even recover from incurable diseases. One of them is the story of Cathy Goodman who was cured from breast cancer (her story was shown on “Secret”). Did an experiment with the 6 eating disorder sufferers; The just asked them to laugh at least an hour every day. Really made the sure that they did it. The personally sent them funny stories and jokes via e-mails and also made them laugh over the phone.

They also shared with them jokes relating to eating disorders. Because the think if you can laugh about something, than that something stops looking like to problem. If the problem is not to problem anymore you will let it go with ease. My experiment lasted for two months. The result was very inspiring. All 6 people reported to significant improvement in their mental and emotional been. Three of them stated that their urges to binge and purge was much easier to control especially in the second month of laughing.

And the rest of people said that they noticed significant improvement in their moods, easier to concentrated on every day task and not on food and weight, was easier to communicate with others regarding their problems and decreased anxiety and guilt level. I know, the personally think that laugh hour should be to regular practice for every eating disorder sufferer. Other general effects of Laughter to are: Laughter stimulates the immune interferon level which helps the system to fight illness and speeds healing. Immune Also stimulates nearly all processes in the body.

Laughter lowers immune stress hormones level that spasm blood vessels and diminish activity. Laughter reduces at least four of neuroendocrine hormones associated with stress response. These to are epinephrine, cortisol, dopac, and growth hormone. Laugh therapy helps with muscle relaxation. When you laugh, the muscles that to are not involved in the belly laugh, relaxes. Then, after laughing those muscles involved in the laughter start to relax. I know, the action takes place in two stages. Laugh therapy and humor makes to person “forget” about pains and aches.

Laughter can provide to good heart exercise and also relaxation for the heart muscles. It also helps to keep blood pressure under control. To good laughter provides lungs with to lot of air which resulting in to cleaning effect, similar to deep breathing. I know, my advice to all anorexics and bulimics - laugh more; find jokes and funny stories, watch comedies and talk to funny people. Who knows, you may will be surprised with how good you feel.

By: XellePudol

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