PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Binge Eating
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Intense fear of gaining weight or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain. Disturbance in the way in which one"s body weight/shape is experienced or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight. Physical changed including: organ failure, loss of bone density, amenorrhea, slow heart rate, low blood pressure, cold intolerance, lanugo. High mortality rate due to medical complication from disorder/suicide. Dsm = diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. Characterized by extreme disturbances in eating behavior: anorexia nervosa. Eating in a discrete period of time, an amount of food that is larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. A send of lack of control over eating during the episode (feeling that you can"t stop eating) Recurrent, inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain (e. g. vomiting, laxatives, fasting, etc. )
