Ake me get there, you know?” ?I 6. When the women began

Ake me get there, you know?” ?I 6. When the women began to recover from AN, many began to take an interest in their past and present life style. Some had reached a point in their recovery where they felt swindled as theyevaluated AN’s negative impact in terms of personal development, such as difficulties in relationships, limitations, restrictions, inhibitions and loss of opportunities, among other aspects, as exemplified in the following account, “My life got better, but I felt some things got lost on the way… Nowadays, I’m still single and don’t have a boyfriend, while most people my age already do. Also, things could be better professionally speaking, if I didn’t have this problem. It feels like I’ve missed the boat.” ?I 5.DiscussionAfter at least 5 years, all of the participants could vividly Pentagastrin biological activity remember factors associated with their recovery process. In this study of women with AN and their experiences with remission we found four core factors involved with remission: `motivation and stimuli to remission’ when the desire to change and powerful other factors such as pregnancy or imminence of death triggers the process; `empowerment/autonomy’ when remission seems possible through a sense of autonomy, self acceptance and increased involvement with religion or spirituality; `media related factors’ when remission is considered possible through the aid of diverse media such as personal records, journals, conferences, the internet, television; and `treatment factors’ such as various biological or psychological approaches and interestingly alternative therapies. Although people recognize the need for treatment, the notion of how this begins can be very broad. Motivation and stimulus to change can have several influxes of determination and start from an inner factor, a certain perception or insight, or from external factors, such as affective relationships or pregnancy. The idea of risk, the danger to one’s health and, especially, physical complications or the risk of death seem to cause one, in these critical situations, to be in touch with reality in a way that triggersRemission in Anorexia Nervosa of Female Patientsand promotes change. According to Vansteenkiste, and coworkers [34], motivation consists of a series of processes that make an 298690-60-5 site individual move towards a specific objective. This is not about a personality trait, but rather a state that involves inner processes subject to change. Motivation is characterized by a dynamic process based on the transtheoretical model, developed by Prochaska and DiClemente [35]. This model describes the stages of behavioral change that an individual goes through in a nonlinear way, whether in treatment or not. Ambiguity and reluctance to recover are important factors to be overcome [8]. Second, another type of competence needed for remission is empowerment, i.e. the development of the ability to put one’s own life and identity in a new perspective. This takes into consideration the development of one’s self-acceptance and the self and a sense of self-integration, a structure that can counterbalance the powerful mechanisms of the disease. These elements could consist of the perception of physical, psychological and spiritual values. Data from this study point to several factors that are involved in this manner: the capacity of self-observation, as a quality that is present or through spirituality; and the development of autonomy in relation to the family environment. Existing evidence suggests that.Ake me get there, you know?” ?I 6. When the women began to recover from AN, many began to take an interest in their past and present life style. Some had reached a point in their recovery where they felt swindled as theyevaluated AN’s negative impact in terms of personal development, such as difficulties in relationships, limitations, restrictions, inhibitions and loss of opportunities, among other aspects, as exemplified in the following account, “My life got better, but I felt some things got lost on the way… Nowadays, I’m still single and don’t have a boyfriend, while most people my age already do. Also, things could be better professionally speaking, if I didn’t have this problem. It feels like I’ve missed the boat.” ?I 5.DiscussionAfter at least 5 years, all of the participants could vividly remember factors associated with their recovery process. In this study of women with AN and their experiences with remission we found four core factors involved with remission: `motivation and stimuli to remission’ when the desire to change and powerful other factors such as pregnancy or imminence of death triggers the process; `empowerment/autonomy’ when remission seems possible through a sense of autonomy, self acceptance and increased involvement with religion or spirituality; `media related factors’ when remission is considered possible through the aid of diverse media such as personal records, journals, conferences, the internet, television; and `treatment factors’ such as various biological or psychological approaches and interestingly alternative therapies. Although people recognize the need for treatment, the notion of how this begins can be very broad. Motivation and stimulus to change can have several influxes of determination and start from an inner factor, a certain perception or insight, or from external factors, such as affective relationships or pregnancy. The idea of risk, the danger to one’s health and, especially, physical complications or the risk of death seem to cause one, in these critical situations, to be in touch with reality in a way that triggersRemission in Anorexia Nervosa of Female Patientsand promotes change. According to Vansteenkiste, and coworkers [34], motivation consists of a series of processes that make an individual move towards a specific objective. This is not about a personality trait, but rather a state that involves inner processes subject to change. Motivation is characterized by a dynamic process based on the transtheoretical model, developed by Prochaska and DiClemente [35]. This model describes the stages of behavioral change that an individual goes through in a nonlinear way, whether in treatment or not. Ambiguity and reluctance to recover are important factors to be overcome [8]. Second, another type of competence needed for remission is empowerment, i.e. the development of the ability to put one’s own life and identity in a new perspective. This takes into consideration the development of one’s self-acceptance and the self and a sense of self-integration, a structure that can counterbalance the powerful mechanisms of the disease. These elements could consist of the perception of physical, psychological and spiritual values. Data from this study point to several factors that are involved in this manner: the capacity of self-observation, as a quality that is present or through spirituality; and the development of autonomy in relation to the family environment. Existing evidence suggests that.