PSY 352 Lecture 24: Eating Disorders
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All different types of women being active and healthy. Another clip was a high school project of filming people"s reactions to being told they are beautiful. More prevalent in children, and in children with mental disabilities. All but pica are mutually exclusive diagnosis. You can only have one of these diagnosis at the same time. Pica - ingestion of non-nutritive, non-food substance. Can"t be diagnosed until 2 because babies pick things up off the floor. Risky and problematic with many poor outcomes. People with autism and other intellectual disabilities. Type of pica where people eat hair, carpet fibers. Bezoar - a solid mass of indigestible material that accumulates in the digestive trac. Trichobezoars (made up of hair) - rapunzel"s syndrome. Rumination - regurgitation of swallowed food back into the mouth. Avoidant - children that are so picky about food that they end up restricting their diets to a dangerous limit.
