Eating And Sleep Disorders (Week 8 / Chap 9-10) Flashcards
Impact of eating disorders
- Up to 20% of people with anorexia die from their disorder (5% within
a decade, e.g., Franko et al., 2013) - This is more than any other disorder, including depression
- The rate of suicide is 50 X higher than in the general population
Arcelus et al., 2011)
Bulimia Nervosa in the DSM5
- Recurrent episodes of binge eating, meaning:
1. Eating, in a discrete amount of time an amount of food (e.g., within
2 hours), definitely larger than most people would eat in a similar
amount of time
2. Sense of lack of control over eating during the episode - Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviours to prevent weight
gain (vomiting, exercise, laxatives, diuretics) - Occurs at least once a week for at least 3 months
- Self‐evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight
- Doesn’t occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa
Bulimia Side effects
- Facial distortions from salivary gland enlargement (vomiting)
- Loss of and damage to teeth from vomiting
- Potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmia or kidney failure, from electrolyte
imbalances - Subsequent substance abuse, smoking, (von Ranson, Iacono &
McGue, 2002) and depression (Steiger et al., 2013) - Weight gain (Ludescher et al., 2009) ‐ laxatives and vomiting are not
effective. Most are within 10% of their normal body weight when
they start. - Colon damage or constipation from laxative use
Anorexia Nervosa DSM5
A. Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a
significantly low weight (in context of age, sex, health etc)
B. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, or persistent behaviour
that interferes with weight gain, even at a significantly low weight
C. Disturbance in the way in which one’s body is experienced, undue
influence of body weight or shape on self‐evaluation, or persistent lack
of recognition of the seriousness of the current body weight
* Specification of whether they had the restricting (no binge/purge – just
restriction and/or excessive exercise) or binge‐eating/purging subtype in
the past 3 months
Description / Summary of Anorexia
- Intense fear of obesity
- Distorted sense of their body size: Pick your body shape.
- They answer with gross overestimation (McCabe, McFarlane, Polivy &
Olmstead, 2001); they believe they look “fat” - Other observers would estimate the same person’s shape accurately, and
would recognize that they look sickly - They can binge/purge too (eating without control albeit far smaller
amounts of food than those with bulimia and an immediate purge) - They expect continual weight loss. Weight maintenance, even at
dangerously low levels, is anxiety provoking
Etiology: Social, gender of Anorexia
- Greater sex prevalence in females
- Those whose assigned sex at birth does not match their gender identity, are more likely than cisgender people (assigned sex at birth matches gender identity) are more likely to engage in disordered eating. The odds of past year ED and past month ED symptoms are
significantly higher than the odds of these behaviors in cisgender males (Watson, Veale, & Saewyc, 2017) - Gender nonconforming people assigned a female sex at birth have
increased risk of EDs relative to people who are male‐to‐female or
female‐to‐male (Diemer et al., 2018)
- Gender nonconforming people assigned a female sex at birth have
Etiology: Culture, Media portrayal of Anorexia
- Overweight men depicted on tv are 2‐5 X more common; magazine
portrayals of women since the 70s have had decreasing weight - Frequent portrayals of women dieting, making disparaging remarks
about their bodies - Previously thin ideals were achieved via corsets not dieting
- An examination of Ebony magazine had less representations of thin
women(Thompson‐Brenner, Boisseau & Paul, 2011); there is a lower
rate of ED in black women (Bodell et al., 2018).
Etiology: Family contributions of Anorexia
- More likely to have perfectionistic, dieting mom
- Families with preoccupation with others’ sizes
- Having a family member with an ED is stressful and creates family
strife
Dieting leading to EDs
- People who don’t diet, don’t develop eating disorders
- Teen girls who diet, are 8 x more likely to develop EDs
- Dieting leads to weight gain, which increases preoccupation/concern
- Boring food, after exposure to junk food, leads to anxiety in rats –
when you give them junk food, anxiety decreases – reinforcement - We are all exposed to media images of thin women, why is the rate of
eating disorders less than 1%?
Etiology: Biological factors of Anorexia
- Heritability of AN of .56 (Bulik et al., 2006) but WHAT is being
inherited? - Also no adoption studies, just twin studies
- Isn’t this the case across all of our disorders?
- A nonspecific biological vulnerability which could be sensitivity to distress?
- Drive for control under uncertainty?
- Responsivity to stress?
- Tendency towards negative mood?
- Low levels of serotonin?
Etiology: Psychological factors of Anorexia
- Our models have focused on general psychological vulnerability
- What are they?
- Perfectionism
- Anxiety sensitivity
- Need for control
- Low self‐efficacy
- Eating Disorder specific?
- Distortions on body image
- Intolerance of negative mood states
- Fear of becoming fat
Integrative Model of Eating Disorders
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Treatment Rates for Anorexia
- Treatment seeking is not as common as you would think, given that AN is the
most fatal - It is more common to seek treatment for the comorbid condition, e.g., MDD]
Check text / slide approximately only 30-40%
Treatment options for Anorexia
- SSRIs (only for Bulimia, Not For Anorexia)
- CBT‐E (Fairburn, 2008)
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- family involvement/counseling re: communication around food,
having structured and reinforcing meals, attitudes towards body shape. - Motivational interviewing may be helpful before therapy to enhance
readiness for change (Dunn, Neighbors & Larimer, 2006)
Treaments for Anorexia: SSRIs
- SSRIs help some with bulimia but not long‐term so they are combined with
CBT, if used at all (Reas & Grillo, 2014); SSRIs not helpful with anorexia
(Kruger & Kennedy, 2000)
Treaments for Anorexia: CBT-E
- CBT‐E (Fairburn, 2008) is a transdiagnostic treatment with good efficacy
and an approach that addresses the common factors across disorders
eating
Treaments for Anorexia: Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) focuses solely on interpersonal issues
and is as effective as CBT (Fairburn et al., 1993; Agras et al., 2000)
* Even in CBT, there is family involvement/counseling re: communication around food, having structured and reinforcing meals, attitudes towards body shape
Treaments for Anorexia: Motivational interviewing
Motivational interviewing may be helpful before therapy to enhance
readiness for change (Dunn, Neighbors & Larimer, 2006)
- Ingesting insufficient calories (i.e., below body’s needs)
Restricted eating
- Attempting to follow demanding, rigid, perfectionistic rules to try to
experience sense that one is in control of their eating - Creates a preoccupation/obsession with food
- Ironically attempts to control eating deprive them of a true ability to control
eating - Makes eating anxiety provoking, guilt‐ridden experiences
Restrained eating
Targeting restricted eating (eating disorders)
- Identify dietary rules: What foods do you fear? If you were at a dinner
party, what situations would cause anxiety? - They learn why restricted eating doesn’t work, the adverse consequences and
how ineffective laxatives and vomiting are as strategies - Connect the motivation to the behavior. What would happen if?….
- Make a plan for breaking rules, by creating low stakes situations
(coping plan to prevent binges/purges). Repeat exposures until guilt
and anxiety decrease - CBT‐E prescribes 6 small “meals” at no more than 3 hour intervals to reduce
over eating or restricting and prevention of compensatory behaviours
Targeting maladaptive beliefs (eating disorders)
- There is nothing inherently good about resisting eating
- There are no bad foods. Quantity and balance takes care of this.
- Goal is not to eat crappy foods—just to have freedom to choose from
a range of foods - Eating should not be restrictive; its something we do to be healthy
- Rules about eating less are like developing rules to breathe less than
others - The right amount of food is the amount needed to maintain a healthy
weight and follow nutritional guidelines
Sleep problems
▪ Problems associated with sleepiness (e.g., obstructive
sleep apnea)
▪ Problems associated with sleeplessness (e.g., insomnia
disorder)
▪ Other sleep problems (e.g., nightmare disorder)
▪ Fall asleep unintentionally outside of the sleep period,
includes dozing, nodding off
▪ Problems causing ________ (not exhaustive)
– Voluntary sleep restriction
– Sleep apnea
– Narcolepsy
– Shift work
– Periodic Limb Movement Disorder
Excessive Sleepiness / Hypersomnolence Disorder