Addictive Personality Disorder

Arnold Schwarzenegger fan Linda Gartside started bodybuilding to beat eating ...

It's a commonly held perception that people cannot have an eating disorder if they are a normal weight.

But a petite mother-of-two hid her severe binge eating for years - by working off the calories in the gym.

Linda Gartside, 40, has now left her junk food obsession behind and set her sights on becoming Miss Universe after becoming a champion body-builder.

But after watching family members struggle for years with their weight, she had developed a problem with food and spent more than thirty years secretly binge-eating hordes of junk food.

After gorging herself on carrier bags full of chocolates, cakes and crisps, the Arnold Schwarzenegger fan would throw herself into heavy cardio work-outs at the gym through guilt.

And as she managed to maintain her weight no one noticed her problem.

As Linda approached forty, her teenage dreams of becoming a champion body-builder resurfaced and she decided it was time to kick her unhealthy obsession for good, focusing on weight training and overhauling her diet.

Just two years on, 5'3" Linda has completely transformed her physique and has competed in female body-building competitions on a national and international level to be crowned Miss UK and Miss Britain 2010. She has also recently ranked 5th in the world.

The driving instructor, of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is now training to become a personal trainer specialising in obesity management.

She said: 'Everyone does bodybuilding for different reasons, some do it for their ego, some for winning but I'm doing it to fight my body.

'I grew up with my mum and dad and my sister all struggling with their weight in different ways.

'I've got an addictive personality, it just so happened that my addiction was with food but no-one understood compulsive eating as a disorder then.

'Bodybuilding has saved me, while everyone else is thinking win, win, win, I'm thinking I don't want to end up obese. To me bodybuilding was breaking the cycle of my eating problems because the further I got from obesity the healthier I thought I was.'

Linda says she began binge-eating when she was just eight-years-old after watching her mum, dad and older sister struggle with their weight. She stocked up on goodies at the shops and crouched behind the bus stop to eat them on the way home from school.

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Addictive personalities is actually a loosely used term to shield behaviors, errors and actions. But addictive personalities can be a severe psychological trait that is developed due to environmental elements and circumstances . If some smokes pot each night to relax, or runs to the refrigerator the minute he/she is back from function or shop lifting, even spending tough earned funds in gambling, then all these can be considered as signs of addictive personalities. These men and women turn self-destructive and display compulsive behaviors.

Addictive personalities are addicted to numerous points like shop lifting, gambling, playing video games, pornography, alcohol, drugs as well as basic points like consuming chocolate. Humans are an fascinating group of living items with a quite complicated psychology. Not merely does the personality characteristics of people differ. but individual capacity to react in certain circumstances is also really diverse. It is possible to by no means predict, when a person loses self control and gets addicted to something. Even so, various addictive personalities tend to share a distinct psychological traits that predisposes people to fall prey to distinct addictions. Let us look at some forms of addictive personality disorders.

Addictive Personalities Types

Anxious Personality: Men and women with stressed or anxious personalities find it really difficult to manage stress. They break down simply under pressure and have poor pressure management skills. These individuals turn out to be addicted to alcohol, drugs and so on. to overcome their anxiety and forget their issues.

Difficulty Delaying Gratification: Such addictive personalities uncover it truly difficult to plan and obtain their lengthy term plans. They are so foccused on their short term requirements, that they cannot manage to concentrate on the long term goals. They’re on a appear out for ‘quick fix’ solutions and display impulsive behavior and have a tendency towards the thrills and risks in life. These people are usually addicted to drugs and alcohol.

Passive-Aggressive: These addictive personalities frequently appear calm and peaceful externally. But internally, they tend to hide their anger and have poor anger management skills.

Immature: These group of folks have a extremely child like outlook towards life. They brag about minor achievements and enjoy the adulation they receive for it. They can not control their immature behavior and go over the best with their addictive personalities.

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