PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Emaciation, Laxative, Dsm-5
24 Jan 2020
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Chapter 10: anorexia nervosa is where an individual develops a morbid fear of fatness, perceive themselves as fat and reduce their food intake to the point of emaciation. They believe that eating feared or forbidden foods will result in significant amounts of weight gain. May engage in ritualistic eating behaviours, food restriction, overexercising, purging (self induced vomiting, laxative abuse ) etc. Anorexic individuals perceive their bodies or parts of their bodies to be much larger than they actually are. Accompanying symptoms/behaviours include cognitive/emotional/physiological functioning, social withdrawal, irritability, preoccupation with food and depression. Psychopathology 19: bulimia nervosa is periods of food restriction that alternate with periods of binge eating. The binges are followed by attempts to compensate by either vomiting, laxative or diuretic abuse, hyper exercising or starving oneself. Low self esteem, use weight and shape information as their primary method of self- evaluation. Social isolation and depression is common with bulimia nervosa.
