Eating Disorders

Question 1

What is considered as an Eating Disorder?

Answer 1

When you have an unhealthy attitude to food, which can take overshadow the normal functioning of life.

Question 2

How can Eating Disorders present?

Answer 2

Eating too much or too little.

Becoming obsessed with weight and body shape.

Question 3

What are 3 PREDISPOSING factors to having an Eating Disorder?

Answer 3

• Genetics
• Life events
• Perinatal factors

Question 4

What are 4 PRECIPITATING factors (triggers) to an Eating Disorder?

Answer 4

• Dieting
• Puberty
• Increased Exercise
• Stress

Question 5

What are 4 PERPETUATING factors to Eating Disorders?

Answer 5

• Delayed gastric emptying
• Obsessionality
• Narrowing focus
• Starvation syndrome

Question 6

What are some tell-tale habits of someone with an eating disorder?

Answer 6

• Calorie intake avoidance
• Purging calories
• Body Checking (Obsessionality)
• Visiting pro-ana online communities

Question 7

What are some ways in which people purge calories? (6)

Answer 7

• Self induced vomiting
• Chewing and spitting out
• Overexercising in secret
• Over activity
• Cooling
• Medical Abuse

Question 8

What are psychological consequences of eating disorders? (3)

Answer 8

• Malnourished brains experience loss of concentration, depression and anxiety
• Depression at low weight doesn’t respond to SSRIs
• Failure to develop healthy coping mechanisms to stresses in live

Question 9

What are some social consequences of having an ED?

Answer 9

• Developing habits of lying
• Isolation
• Psychosocial harm through excercise

Question 10

What are some physical consequences of having an ED? (2)

Answer 10

• Starvation causes physical damage, poor resistance, fertility problems.
• Purging behaviours cause neuro-chemical imbalances.

Question 11

What is the SCOFF questionnaire?

Answer 11

2 or more of the following suggests ED:

• Sick / too full
• Control over consumption
• One stone or more lost in 3 months
• Fat? Thin?
• Food dominates your life