PSYCH 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Vomiting, Binge Eating Disorder, Eth
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*suicides romanticized in the media, pressure, martyr. People who demonstrated an implicit association between the word death/suicide and self (even if not aware) were 6 times more likely to make a suicide attempt in the next 6 months. Encouraging greater flexibility in appraisals and attributions concerning emotional situations. Identifying and preventing tendencies to avoid certain situations and intense emotions. Engaging patients in exercises designed to evoke physical sensations analogous to those typically associated with their anxiety and distress. Encouraging patients to increase their tolerance of intense or uncomfortable emotions through exposure to both the situational cues or triggers as well as their own internal physical cues associated with intense emotions. Began to increase during the 1950"s or early 1960"s. Bulimia nervosa: an eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive (binge) eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (for example, deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, and excessive exercise)
