HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Binge Eating Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, Binge Eating

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2G03
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

High concordance rates with ocd and depression. People with anorexia are obsessed with food, frequently develop rituals but some feel that it"s different than ocd and that these rituals develop after they begin semi-starvation. Starvation itself causes all sorts of behavioural/psychological changes, may replicate other disorders. Until dsm-5 nos was the most common diagnosis for eating disorders (up to 50%0. Many people partaking in binge eating without compensatory behaviour. Many mixed cases of anorexia and bulimia. Typical overeaters got caught up in the diagnosis as some shame/guilt/loss of control common. Reference to eating disorders prior to 1960 scant. B. n. didn"t appear until dsm iii in 1980. Binge eating disorder subject of controversy line between that and typical (cultural?) overeating blurry. Over course of lifetime, many people shift from anorexia to bulimia to binge eating disorder. Eating disorders found primarily in industrialized nations. In other cultures more rounded women are considered beautiful.