PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Psychoeducation, Family Therapy
11 Mar 2013
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Patients with bulimia and patients with anorexia both share the drive to be thin. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder, including depression. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of new cases of anorexia and bulimia. Eating disorders tend to occur in young females in families with upper-middle and upper-class socioeconomic status who live in a socially competitive environment. Bulimia nervosa: eating disorder involving recurrent episodes of uncontrolled excessive eating followed by compensatory actions to remove the food (eg. deliberate vomiting, laxative abuse, excessive exercise) Eating a larger amount of food (usually more junk food) than most people would eat under similar circumstances. Individual attempts to make up for the binge eating by purging techniques, fasting for long periods, or excessive exercise: purging techniques: self-induced vomiting, laxatives, diuretics. Those who use laxatives are generally more impulsive. Bulimia is subtyped into purging (most common) and non-purging.
