The first step towards recovery is to be aware of having a problem. If you think you are bigorexic is important to contact a doctor or a specialized center that knows how to follow you and give you support.
The first contact is used to make a multidisciplinary visit with a psychologist, a dietician and a nutritionist. Following the diagnosis, it is established treatment, which should be subjected, according to the seriousness and the special nature of the disorder present.
There are four levels of treatment:
- outpatient: is the excellent therapeutic in 60% of patients. It makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in the treatment phase and provides for an active involvement of the family;
- day hospital: you will be going on a designated day at the structure to carry out checks, psychological activities, nutritional rehabilitation, work with family;
- hospitalization (lifesaver): is necessary when the patient needs continuous monitoring. It provides both a nutritional intervention, through artificial feeding, and a psychological one, motivating the patient to a subsequent treatment. Restored the clinical condition, hospitalization ends and starts the rehabilitation treatment in a center outside the hospital;
- residential and semi-residential treatment: they are outside hospital structures where there is the rehabilitation. The duration of treatment varies from 3 to 5 months and allows an improvement in body weight and behavior.