NURS 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Emotional Dysregulation, Binge Eating, Binge Eating Disorder
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Anorexia nervosa: mixture of symptoms that include, significantly low body weight. Weight restoration has been linked to an improved ability to cope with sensation: the emotional dysregulation model links deficits in emotional regulation with. An posits that those with an have deficits in the ability to understand and modulate emotions which result in individuals experiencing emotions as overwhelming and unmanageable. An uses disordered eating to regulate their affective state by either reducing negative affect or increasing positive effect and thus disordered eating, through reinforcement, is maintained. Emotional dysregulation is hypothesized to relate to perfectionism: perfectionism: a typical significant symptom of an and bn and is hypothesized to develop long before eating symptoms occur. Overwhelming sense of guilt and anger, which leads to conflict avoidance, common in these families. Bc of ritualistic behaviors, an all encompassing focus on food and weight, and feelings of inadequacy, social contacts are gradually reduced, and the patient becomes isolated.
