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Psych: Eating Disorders

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Persistant eating of non-nutritive, non food substances for a period of over 1 month. Inappropriate to individual development or cultural environment.
PICA
minimum age required to diagnose PICA
2 years. This avoids the normal infant mouthing of objects
Adult onset of PICA is most often associated with
intellectual disability or mental disorder
Childhood onset of PICA can occur
normally
Repeated regurgitation of food for over 1 month. Food may be re-chewed, re-swallowed, or spit out. Does not occur exclusively during another psych disorder or eating disorder.
Rumination Disorder
An eating/feeding disorder or apparent lack of interest in food due to sensory characteristics of food. Manifested by failure to meet nutritional needs.
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is marked by
1. significant weight loss
2. significant nutritional deficiency
3. Dependance on enteral feeding or nutritional supplements
4. Marked interference with psychosocial functioning
Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to significantly low body weight. Intense fear of becoming fat, and a disturbance in the way one's body shape is experienced
Anorexia Nervosa
Type of Anorexia that does NOT contain a binge eating or purging episode in at least 3 mos, and consists mainly of dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise to lose weight
restricting type
Type of Anorexia that includes an episode of the misuse of diuretics, laxatives, enemas, or self-induced vomiting to lose weight within a 3 month period
binge-eating/purging type
Three essential features of anorexia nervosa
1. Persistent energy intake restriction
2. intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain
3. disturbance in self perceived weight or shape
most people with anorexia nervosa experience remission within
5 years
death from anorexia nervosa usually occurs by
complications associated with the medical disorder itself or by suicide
which type of anorexia has a higher risk of that individual having first degree relatives that have either bipolar or depressive disorders?
binge/purge type
Recurrent episodes of binge eating are seen in
Bulimia Nervosa
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