PSY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Heritability
8 Mar 2016
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Restriction in calories that lead to significantly low body weight relative to age, sex, height, etc. Engaging in restricted food intake and not engaging in binging and. Sense of lack of control over eating during the episode. On average at least once a week for 3 months. Medical consequences are severe but not as severe as anorexia. Fatigue, headaches, loss of dental enamel, electrolyte imbalances. Onset: 14-18 although it can affect other age groups. Begins with dieting leads to life threatening starvation (mortality rate is 5%) Most common: fluctuations with recovery and relapse. Fewer than will show full recovery. Anorexia: purging, and comorbid affective or anxiety disorders. Worse outcomes are correlated with longer duration of illness, binging and. Onser is in late adolescence or late adulthood weight, or binging and puring. Some behaviors occurred much earlier such as preoccupation with. May occur after period of restrictive dieting. May follow a chronic course or occur intermittently.
