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Eating Disorders in Psychology


 Eating disorders are serious medical sicknesses  marked by severe disturbances to a person's eating  behaviours. Obsessions with food,  body weight and shapes can be signs of eating disorder eating disorders. Eating Disorders can affect a person's physical and mental health. 

Common types of eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa-

People with Anorexia Nervosa  avoid food,severely prohibited food,or eat terribly little quantities of only certain foods. When people are at risk for underweight they will see themselves as overweight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa have an intense fear of  gaining weight or becoming fat and have a distorted self-image of their body weight and shape. 

Anorexia Nervosa has two subtypes

a)Restrictive b) binge-Purge

Restrictive- Restrictive subtype  of anorexia nervosa  can be increased  when a good amount of food and types of food person consume.


  1. Binge-Purge

In this subtype of anorexia Nervosa  purging  behaviours such as vomiting, use of laxatives  etc.

Symptoms  may include  in Anorexia Nervosa-

  1. Extremely  restricted  uptake and/or intensive and excessive  exercise. 

  2. Extreme thinness ( emaciation)

  3. A Restless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal  or healthy weight. 

  4. Intense concern of gaining weight. 

  5. Heavily  influenced  by perceptions of  weight. 

  6. Dilution of the bones( osteopenia or osteoporosis) 

  7. Mild anemia and muscle wasting and weakness. 

  8. Dry and pale skin.

  9. Dry and brittle hair and nails.

  10. Severe constitution

  11. Infertility 

  12. Low blood pressure etc.

Bulimia  Nervosa-

People with binge-eating disorder lose management over their uptake. not like bulimia nervosa, periods of

binge-eating don't seem to be followed by purging, excessive exercise, or fasting. As a result, individuals with binge-eating disorder are typically overweight or corpulent.

Symptoms include:

◗ eating giant amounts of food in a very certain quantity of your time, like a 2-hour amount

intake even once full or not hungry

◗ intake till uncomfortably full

◗ eating alone or on the Q.T. to avoid embarrassment

◗ Feeling distressed, ashamed, or guilty concerning eating.

◗ ofttimes fasting, presumably while not weight loss

How are eating disorders treated?

It is necessary to start treatment early for eating disorders. individuals with eating disorders  at higher risk for suicide and medical complications. Some individuals with eating disorders can also produce other mental disorders (such as depression or anxiety) or issues with substance use.

Treatment plans for eating disorders embrace psychotherapy, medical aid and observation, biological process,counseling, medications, or a mixture of those approaches. Typical treatment goals embrace restoring

adequate nutrition, delivery weight to a healthy level, reducing excessive exercise, and stopping binge-purge and binge-eating behaviors. Complete recovery is feasible.

Specific sorts of psychotherapy (or “talk therapy”) and psychological feature behavioural approaches is effective

for treating specific intake disorders.  Disorders and co-occurring anxiety or

depression associated with eating disorders. 


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