PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Binge Eating Disorder, Binge Eating, Extreme Weight Loss
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Slide 2: eating disorders - disordered eating behaviors and maladaptive ways of controlling body weight. Disorders under this category include: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Slide 3: 0. 5% of canadians are diagnosed with eating disorders in a year. Women are more likely than men to report an eating disorder. Slide 4: anorexia nervosa women have a distorted image of their image, they tend to see themselves as overweight even when they may be at a healthy weight. People may be preoccupied with food, make food for others, dream/think about food a lot but restrict from eating. Severely underweight and accompanied with fear of gaining weight. They refuse to maintain weight at or above their age and height, intense fear of becoming fat and distorted body image. Engage in episodes of binge eating-purging type episodes of binge eating and then purging, problems related to impulse control periods of rigid control and impulsive behaviour.
