Psychology Eating Disorders Quiz

Eating Disorder

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Eating Disorder

An illness that causes serious disturbances to your everyday diet, such as eating extremely small amounts of food, or severely overeating

Anorexia Nervosa

Nervous inability to eat; can be OCD, may respond to treatment and to meds used for OCD

Overweight and can not be convinced otherwise; portion it; excessively; laxatives; vomitting

How does a person with anorexia nervosa see themself? What do they do to their food? How much do they exercise? What do they misuse and what do they induce?

Bulimia Nervosa

Ravenous hunger; reoccuring and frequent episodes of eating large amounts of food; lack of control over these episodes

Healthy; weight; purge; secretly- ashamed and disgust; several times a week and many times a day

How is a person, who has bulimia, weight? What do they fear and want to lose? What do they do to themselves to free themselves of eaten food? Where is this done and why? How many times does it happen in a week? Day?

Excessive preoccupation with avoiding foods; perceived to be unhealthy; differs from other eating disorders because it focuses on the quality of food eaten not the quantity

The quality not quantity

What does someone with orthorexia focus on? (In relation to food)

Which disorder is not currently recognized as a clinical diagnosis?

Right, correct; appetite

What does orthorexia mean? What does orexis mean?