Jana “Urkraft” Pallaske last week during her disturbing confession in the camp: At the age of 19 she was severely anorexic.Image: RTL
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“I almost died of anorexia when I was 19, and I want mine Body don’t trigger it that way,” admitted Jana “Urkraft” Pallaske in tears to her roommate and jungle chef Papis Loveday on the RTL show “Jungle Camp”.
That was on day seven in the camp, which means: seven days of hardly anything to eat, seven days of hunger. The result: bad mood, bitching and mental stress. But for Jana Pallaske, as an ex-anorexia patient, it was probably particularly hard, because she felt it was a difficult time in her life remembers: “I recognized it myself back then, I wanted to get out of there and had this blatant experience and the switch: ‘I want to live!'”.
All the stars in the camp are struggling with hunger. This is particularly difficult for Jana “Urkraft” Pallaske.picture: RTL
For this reason, she said into the jungle phone camera, starving in the camp was incredibly difficult for her. Since the drastic experience of her anorexia, she has taken good care of her body, this “precious vehicle”. You’ve been with little before meal lived in the jungle, but she didn’t expect it to be so bad. Torturing her body in the camp with deprivation of food, “the alarm bells go off again when he notices that things are going in the right direction again,” says Jana.
Jana talks about her experiences with anorexia on the jungle phone.picture: rtl
Should a former anorexia patient like Jana Pallaske experience a hunger ordeal like in jungle camp Wouldn’t it be better to let it go if it’s not good for your body and your psyche? Or can it even be positive to be confronted with your trauma?
“Due to the strong psychological pressure in front of the camera, but also due to the tasks, there is a great risk of deterioration.”
Hannes Horter on ex-anorexia patients in the camp
Watson has Dr. Hannes Horter asked. He is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy in two Oberberg clinics, where he also primarily treats patients with eating disorders.
watson: What exactly is anorexia and how common is this disease?
Hannes Horter: Eating disorders in a broader sense are common. Especially in girls and boys Women. About 20 percent of all adolescents show signs of disordered eating behavior. Complete eating disorders are less common, but around 2.8 percent of women will have binge eating disorder (food addiction), 2.6 percent will have bulimia nervosa, also known as bulimia or binge eating, and two to three percent will have it at some point in their lives anorexia nervosa, also known as anorexia or anorexia. Despite certain similarities, there are clear differences between the eating disorders, making it difficult to generalize.
How risky is it for those affected to take part in a TV show like the jungle camp, where you hardly eat anything and only very one-sidedly for two weeks?
People who are currently suffering from a serious mental illness, which includes anorexia nervosa, should not participate in such a TV show. Due to the strong psychological pressure in front of the camera, but also due to the tasks, there is a great risk of deterioration. Answering the question for someone with a treated and resolved eating disorder is more complex. The ultimate goal of treatment is recovery and the achievement of a normal life. Blanket bans are often not helpful. You should consider your current mental and physical health.
There were arguments and bitches about food in the jungle camp after just a few days.Image: RTL
Many sufferers continue to show certain signs of the disease, or a susceptibility to a recurrence, even after treatment for anorexia. In particular, if the people are still quite slim, they slip when there is insufficient nutrition quickly become underweight. This can also trigger a relapse into anorexia, which is ultimately perpetuated by interactions between the psyche and the emaciated body.
What about jungle trials where you’re confronted with disgusting things you have to eat?
Because himself anorexic People deal a lot with their diet, eating disgusting things is certainly a particular “stressor”. Taking part in such a TV show is therefore more risky for people with such a disease than for others.
Disgusting food like cow nose in the jungle test for camp inmates Jolina and Markus. Image: RTL / Stefan Thoyah
So, can being on the show lead to a relapse into anorexia?
Starving yourself again, whether voluntary or involuntary, can trigger a relapse. The stress generated by participating in such a TV show can add to this.
“The ‘uncontrolled’ confrontation through forced starvation is certainly not a helpful measure here.”
Hannes Horterto watson
Can it also be good, as a former person with an eating disorder, to be confronted with the topic of food?
Even after an episode of illness has subsided, it makes sense to continue to deal with the illness to an appropriate extent. In addition to continued psychiatric or psychotherapeutic treatment, self-help groups are also useful here. The “uncontrolled” confrontation through forced starvation is certainly not a helpful measure here. I would also not advise any “dry” alcoholic person to experiment with alcohol.
“Eating remains an issue, and many years later suffer from mental or physical ailments.”
Will you ever completely get rid of an eating disorder that you have recovered from or will food always remain an issue?
It remains an issue for many of those affected, and many years later suffer from mental or physical complaints. In a Swedish study, 15-year-old girls with anorexia nervosa were followed for 30 years. After 30 years, 64 percent of them had a complete remission – they were free of symptoms for at least six months. 36 percent – more than a third – were not! On average, the women studied suffered from the symptoms of an eating disorder for ten of the 30 years.
What is the best way to deal with recovering from anorexia? Do you talk about it or rather not?
Whether and under what circumstances you want to come out with an illness is a very personal decision – whether the jungle camp is the right setting? I’d be more reticent about that… Because an eating disorder is something very intimate. It affects the perception of one’s own body and one’s own self-esteem. Overall, there is still a stigma attached to mental illness and many encounter the issue with incomprehension.
Jana opened up to her camp roommate Papis and tearfully told her about her eating disorder. Was that good?Image: rtl
At the same time, especially in times of crisis, you need people to support you. I therefore recommend thinking carefully: Who do I want to tell about it and what do I want to tell? Who might already know or at least think so? What is the right framework to open me up? Who do I need to tell to avoid more damage or to get needed help?