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Eating disorders are serious behavior problems. They include
Women are more likely than men to have eating disorders. They usually start in the teenage years and often occur along with depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse.
Eating disorders can cause heart and kidney problems and even death. Getting help early is important. Treatment involves monitoring, mental health therapy, nutritional counseling and sometimes medicines.
National Institute of Mental Health
An '''eating disorder''' is a syndrome in which a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health. Overeating is the most common and obvious such disorder, and was in the past often attributed to a lack of self-control. Psychologists nowadays prefer to class the other syndromes as "mental illness", going by the mental health model that views the syndrome as caused by something largely outside human will. Seen this way, these disorders are said to "interfere" with normal food consumption and "lead" to serious health problems. Patients diagnosed with bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa have even died. The major recognized eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and Rumination (eating disorder). Other mental disorders, such as clinical depression or anxiety are held to disturb eating patterns, but these disorders are not considered eating disorders. In these cases, the change in eating behaviour is not considered a central feature of the disorder. People whose eating is disordered in these ways experience psychological suffering, typcially becoming obsessed with food, Dieting and often body image, and their health is at extreme risk due to malnutrition. In the prevailing psychological view, patents with an eating disorder are seen as victims rather than as conscious actors: their suffering is not seen as self-inflicted but as the result of a "disease". Most people with an eating disorder attempt to hide their abnormal behaviour from others. They do not accept the diagnosis and will refuse treatment. As the treatments prescribed for eating disorders can take decades, mental health advocates warnthat early "identification" of these disorders (and diagnosis of the syndrome as being caused by mental illness) may be the difference between life and death for the patient. The two most familar types of eating disorder are anorexia nervosa and ... [ Read More ]
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