PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Bloating, Family Therapy, Personality Disorder
5 Dec 2012
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Eating disorders - characterized by a severe disturbance in eating behaviour. Anorexia nervosa literally means lack of appetite induced by nervousness . A binge involves out-of-control eating of amounts of food that are far greater than what most people would eat in the same amount of time. 30-50% of patents transition from the restricting type to the binge-eating/purging type. Methods of purging commonly include self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, di- uretics and enemas. Binge eating and efforts to prevent weight gain using self-induced vomiting and exces- sive exercise. Bulimia typically begins with restricted eating motivated by the desire to be slender. During these early stages, the person diets and eats low-calorie foods but over time the person starts to eat forbidden foods . During an average binge, someone with bulimia nervosa may consume as many as. After the binge, in an effort to manage the breakdown of self-control, the person begins to vomit, fast, exercise excessively, or abuse laxatives.
