HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Eating Disorders

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Anorexia nervosa: extreme emaciation (refusal to maintain 85% of normal" weight) Involves high-sugar foods usually and ice cream is popular because they are easier to compensate (throw up: feelings of comfort soon replaced by shame, anxiety. Normal appetite and body weight: shame and secrecy about binge eating and purging, medical complications: enamel erosion, rupture of esophagus, high comorbidity with depression, anxiety , bpd, ocd, self-evaluation unduly influenced by body weight/shape. Anorexia: extreme diet, below normal weight, comforted by regid self-control, denial of disorder, proud of diet. Bulimia: binge eating/compensatory behaviour, normal weight range, distressed by lack of control, aware of problem, ashamed of bulimia. Nos (not otherwise specified: until dsm-5, nos was the most common diagnosis for eating disorders (up to 50%, why, many people partaking in binge eating without compensatory behaviour, many mixed cases of anorexia and bulimia. 1: typical overeaters got caught up in the diagnosis as some shame/guilt/loss of control common.