EATING DISORDER
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AGENDA
Introduction ( overview)
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Symptoms of Eating d/o
Treatments
An eating disorder is a mental health condition where
you use the control of food to cope with feelings and
other situations
Unhealthy eating behaviours may include eating too much
or too little or worrying about your weight or body shape.
Anyone can get an eating disorder, but teenagers and
young adults are mostly affected.
With treatment, most people can recover from an eating
disorder.
Types of eating disorders
The most common eating disorders are:
1- anorexia nervosa (often called anorexia) – trying to
control your weight by not eating enough food, exercising
too much, or doing both
2- bulimia – losing control over how much you eat and
then taking drastic action to not put on weight
3- binge eating disorder (BED) – eating large portions of
food until you feel uncomfortably full
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TYPES OF EATING DISORDER
Pica eating
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Anorexia nervosa Bringe eating d/o
Bulimia nervosa
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ANOREXIA NERVOSA
• Anorexia nervosa (often called anorexia) is an eating disorder where you feel a
need to keep your weight as low as possible
• People who have anorexia try to keep their weight as low as possible. They
may do this in different ways, such as not eating enough food, exercising too
much, taking laxatives or making themselves sick (vomit). This can make them
very ill because they start to starve.
• They often have a distorted image of their bodies, thinking they're fat even
when they're underweight.
• Men and women of any age can get anorexia, but it's most common in young
women and typically starts in the mid-teens.
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ANOREXIA NERVOSA
The main symptom of anorexia nervosa (often called anorexia) is
deliberately losing a lot of weight or keeping your body weight much8
lower than is healthy for your age and height.
Signs and symptoms include:
missing meals, eating very little or avoiding eating any foods you see as
fattening
lying about what and when you've eaten, and avoiding eating with others
wearing baggy clothes to hide your body shape and lying about how
much you weigh
taking medicines to reduce your hunger (appetite suppressants), or to
help you poo (laxatives) or to make you pee (diuretics)
exercising excessively or making yourself sick to try to avoid putting on
weight.
an overwhelming fear of gaining weight
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strict rituals around eating and thinking about food a lot
weighing yourself frequently and seeing losing a lot of weight as a
positive thing
believing you're fat when you're a healthy weight or underweight.
not admitting your weight loss is serious
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if you're under 18, your weight and height being lower than the
minimum expected for your age
if you're an adult, having an unusually low body mass index (BMI)
your periods stopping (in women who have not reached menopause)
or not starting (in younger women and girls)
bloating, constipation and abdominal pain headaches or problems
sleeping
feeling cold, dizzy or very tired
poor circulation in hands and feet
dry skin, hair loss from the scalp, or fine downy hair growing on the
body, reduced sex drive
People with anorexia often have other mental health problems, such
as depression or anxiety.
BULIMIA NERVOSA
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Bulimia (bulimia nervosa) is an eating disorder and serious
mental health condition. It can affect anyone and treatment
may take time, but you can recover from it.
losing control of how much you're eating over a very short
time (binge eating)
ridding your body of the extra food (purging)
Purging may include making yourself sick (vomiting),
taking laxative or diuretic medicines, avoiding eating for
long periods of time, exercising excessively, or a
combination of these.
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Other signs of bulimia include:
•fear of putting on weight
•obsessing and being very critical about your weight and body shape
•mood changes – feeling very tense, irritable, anxious or depressed
•thinking about food a lot, and planning binge-eating
•feeling guilty and ashamed, and behaving secretively about eating habits
•avoiding social activities that involve food
•feeling like you have no control over your eating
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You may also notice physical signs like:
feeling tired (fatigue) and trouble sleeping
feeling weak or dizzy
a sore throat from being sick
bloating or tummy pain
puffy sides of your face and under your ears from swollen glands
irregular or stopped periods
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Binge eating disorder
Binge eating disorder, which is when a person feels compelled to
overeat on a regular basis.
Binge eating disorder involves regularly eating a lot of food over a
short period of time until you're uncomfortably full.
It's a serious mental health condition where people eat without
feeling like they’re in control of what they’re doing.
Binges are sometimes planned in advance, but can be
spontaneous. They are usually done alone, and may include
"special" binge foods. You may feel guilty or ashamed after binge
eating.
Men and women of any age can get binge eating disorder, but it
often starts when people are in their 20s or older.
The main symptom of binge eating disorder is eating a lot of
food in a short time and not being able to stop when full.
Other symptoms include:
eating when not hungry
eating very fast during a binge
eating alone or secretly
feeling depressed, guilty, ashamed or disgusted after binge
eating
People who regularly eat in this way may have binge eating
disorder.
Treatment of eating disorder 16
CBT
They'll help you to:
• cope with your feeling
• understand nutrition and the effects of starvation
• make healthy food choices
Nutritional support
Treatment for children and young people
• Family therapy
• Adolescent-focused psychotherapy
The therapist will help you:
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• understand nutrition and healthy eating,
• cope with your fears about gaining weight
• understand your feelings about your identity and how you see yourself
• build your confidence and help you manage stressful situations
• You can also have 8 to 12 therapy sessions with your family.
