NURS 3130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31: Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa
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Eating disorders differ in definition, clinical course, etiologies, and interventions and are presented separately in this chapter. However, symptoms of these disorders, such as dieting, binge eating, and preoccupation with weight and shape overlap significantly. Viewing the symptoms along a continuum from less to more severe eating behaviors helps with this conceptualization, as shown in figure 31. 1 (dennard & richards, 2013). There are also common psychological characteristics of people with eating disorders (box 31. 1). Anorexia nervosa is further categorized into two major types: restricting (dieting and exercising with no binge eating or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas) and binge eating and purging (binge eating and misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas). Malnutrition and semistarvation result in a preoccupation with food, binge eating, depression, obsession, and apathy, as well as compromising several body systems, leading to medical complications and, in some instances, death (apa, 2013). See table 31. 1 for a list of complications from eating disorders.
