PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Binge Eating Disorder, Binge Eating, Rumination Syndrome

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Dsm 4: this disorder criteria is helpful, in dsm 4 we often diagnosed these people with anorexia. But is wrong cuz no cognitions in afid. Symptoms: low body weight (use bmi, bmi not always accurate, ie, if a fat person loses a lot of weight really fast and unhealthily, but now they are in normal bmi. Subtypes: restricting what they eat, have low body weight, binging and purging (exercise or puke) If u bingeing and purging and u have low body weight (diagnosed with an instead of bulimia when body weight is low). Statistics: an mostly in females, life time prevalence for females 0. 5, typical onset 14-18 years, mortality rate over 10% (one of the highest mortality rates of all psychiatric disorders) Subtypes: purging (vomiting, laxatives, diuretics, non-purging bulimia, person still doing compensatory behaviour, but are not actually getting food out of their body, do excessive exercise instead, or extreme fasting.

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