PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Panic Disorder, Physical Attractiveness, Comorbidity
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Lifetime prevalence estimates of anorexia nervosa were 0. 9% for women, 0. 3% for men. Lifetime prevalence estimates of bulimia nervosa were 1. 5% for women, 0. 5% for men. They can never be thin enough: patients with an have a distorted sense of their body shape. They maintain that even when emaciated, they are overweight or that certain part of their bodies, particularly the abdomen, buttocks, and thighs, are too fat. To check on their body size, they typically weight themselves frequently, measure the size of different parts of the body, and gaze critically at their reflections in mirrors. Their self-esteem is closely linked to maintaining thinness. The tendency to link self-esteem and self-evaluation with thinness is k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as (cid:862)o(cid:448)e(cid:396)e(cid:448)aluatio(cid:374) of appea(cid:396)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e. (cid:863) In females, the extreme emaciation causes amenorrhea, the loss of the menstrual period. Moreover, amenorrhea occurs in a significant minority of women before any significant weight loss and the symptom can persist after weight gain.
