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Question 1

What is an eating disorder?

Answer 1

Eating disorder: eating behaviours that are outside of the norm and are detrimental to health and wellbeing.

An eating disorder is a persistent distrubance of eating that impairs physical health and/or psychosocial functioning that is not secondary to any other medical or psychiatric disorder.

Question 2

The diagnosable eating disorders according to the DSM 5 & ICD 10

Answer 2

The diagnosable eating disorders according to the DSM 5 & ICD 10:
* Anorexia Nervosa
* Bulimia Nervosa
* Binge Eating Disorder
* Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders
* Pica
* Rumination Disorder
* Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
* Other: Body Dysmporphia Disorder, Orthorexia Nervosa

Question 3

Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders

Answer 3

Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorders:
* A term used to describe individuals that do not fall within strict diagnostic criteria.
* Treated by guidelines that relate as closely as possible to their symptoms/challenges

Question 4

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

Answer 4

Anorexia Nervosa
* an eating disorder
* characterized by: restriction of energy intake, intense fear of weight gain/obesity although underweight, disturbance of healthy body image: denial of current low body weight