HLTHAGE 1CC3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating
11 Mar 2020
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Mostly a fear of gaining weight (dieting disorder) - not just preventing it, losing it as well. Binge eating disorder challenges link between culture of dieting and eating disorder. Stability of diagnosis when we say someone has an illness, we are creating permeance, but behaviors do change but problems may stay the same. Food avoidance central to life / think about it all the time) & denys seriousness of low body weight ritualistic - people may eat the same thing every day. Physical a lot of people die from it. Complications - cracked skin, impulse control issues, sexual difficulties, kidney failure: amenorrhea removed symptom from dsm5. Body dysmorphia someone diagnosed will put a lot of effort into their weight: people would get denied treatment because person was still menstruating. Comorbid: depression, anxiety, ocd, bdd: bdd describes people who become preoccupied with parts of their body and get stressed and undertake actions to do something about it.
