BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Salvador Minuchin, Physical Attractiveness, Dysfunctional Family
19 Jan 2013
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Bn- ppl with bn are thought to be overconcnered with weight gain and body appearance- they judge their self worth mainly by their weight and shape. They try to follow a rigid pattern of eating that has strict rules regarding how much to eat, what kinds of food to eat and when to eat. These rules are broken and the lapse escalates into a binge. After the binge feelings of disgust and fear of becoming fat build up leading to compensatory actions such as vomiting. Although purging temporarily reduces the anxiety from having eaten too much this cycle lowers the persons self esteem which triggers still more binging and purging vicious cycle that maintains desired body weight but has serious medical consequences. Patients with bn typically binge when they encounter stress and experience negative moods. Bulimia ppl reported more negative moods in the hour just prior to their bineges.
