Meditation helpful for anorexia patients: Research

Unfortunately, many family members, acquaintances, and celebrities have suffered from anorexia nervosa, or AN, a severe mental illness characterised by extreme concerns about weight, shape, and self-esteem. AN symptoms include an eating disorder, nutritional restriction, deliberate vomiting, and severe emaciation. Mindfulness meditation is already commonly used as a therapy for AN. Its clinical utility in treating neurogenic emaciation, on the other hand, has not before been explored. Mindfulness meditation, according to a team of researchers at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Medicine, does alleviate such worries. The study’s findings demonstrate alterations in the activity of brain areas associated with anxiety. The team’s mindfulness meditation program has seen a significant decrease in obsessive thoughts about the test subject’s self-image and brain activity associated with related emotions. “Our results suggest that the participants in the study became better at accepting their anxiety as it is,” says lead author Tomomi Noda.