PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Binge Eating Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Document Summary
Eating disorders include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Eating disorders can affect someone emotionally, socially, psychologically, and physically. They can have life-threatening consequences for individuals of all sexes, genders, races, ethnicities, and ages. Eating disorders are severe mental illnesses that frequently coexist with other illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders. Women are more likely to report that they have an eating disorder than men are (age 15-24) They include weight/shape preoccupation, a striving for perfection, yo-yo dieting, excessive exercising, fasting or restricting, compulsive overeating, purging, steroid use, and laxative abuse. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. 10% of those with anorexia nervosa will die within 10 years of the onset of the disorder (sullivan, 2002) In one study, more than half of american women between the ages of 18-25 said they would rather be hit by a truck than be fat.
