PSYC 134 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anxiety, Bulimia Nervosa, Body Mass Index
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Binge eating disorder: recurrent episodes of binge eating, loss of control, consuming an excessive amount of food in a discrete period of time, eating rapidly, eating alone, eating when uncomfortably full/ not hungry. Not attributable to another mental disorder or medical condition. Study diagnoses in dsm-v: pica, persistent ingestion of nonfood substances over a period of at least a month, non-nutritive. Electrolytes can be affected during refeeding: don"t need to know what they do, just know it is affected, electrolytes are affected during refeeding syndrome and this results in fatigue, cardiac arrest, death. Bodily changes that occur when trying to nourish someone who has been starving/malnourished. Monitor electrolyte activity water loading drinking a lot of water to make themselves feel full or making physician think the weight is where it should be normal . Anxiety: ocd, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, ptsd. Musculoskeletal: decreased bone density, diffuse muscle wasting leads to, weakness, pain.
