HPE 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Mental Disorder, Eating Disorder
CH. 8 BODY IMAGE NOTES
What is Body Image?
• Body image- how you see yourself in your mind, what you believe about your
appearance, and how you feel about your body
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)- psychological disorder characterized by
an obsession with one’s appearance and a distorted view of one’s body or
with a minor or imagined flaw in appearance
Social Physique Anxiety
• Social Physique Anxiety (SPA)- a desire to look good that has a destructive
effect on a person’s ability to function well in social interactions and
relationships
What is Disordered Eating?
• Disordered Eating- a pattern of atypical eating behaviors that is used to
achieve o maintain lower body weight
Some People Develop Eating Disorders
• Eating disorder- a psychiatric disorder characterized by severe disturbances
in body image and eating behaviors
• Anorexia Nervosa- eating disorder characterized by deliberate food
restriction, self-starvation, or extreme exercising to achieve weight loss, and
an extremely distorted body image
• Bulimia Nervosa- eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by
inappropriate purging measures or compensatory behavior, such as vomiting
or excessive exercise, to prevent weight gain
• Bing Eating Disorder- a type of eating disorder characterized by gorging on
food once a week or more, but not typically followed by a purge
• Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)- eating disorders that
are a true psychiatric illness but that do not fit the strict diagnostic criteria
for anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder
Some People Develop Exercise Disorders
• Compulsive Exercise- disorder characterized by a compulsion to engage in
excessive amounts of exercise and feelings of guilt and anxiety if the level or
exercise is perceived as inadequate
• Muscle Dysmorphia- boy image disorder in which men believe that their
bodies are insufficiently lean or muscular
• Female Athlete Triad Syndrome- a syndrome of 3 interrelated health
problems seen in some female athletes: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and
poor bone density
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