Feed/Eat General

Question 1

list the DSM feeding/eating disorders

Answer 1

Pica

rumination disorder

ARFID

anorexia nervosa

bulimia nervosa

binge-eating disorder

Question 2

what characterizes the feeding and eating disorders

Answer 2

a persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related behaviours that results in altered consumption or absorption of food and that SIGNIFICANTLY impairs PHYSICAL HEALTH or PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING

Question 3

how many of the feeding and eating disorders can be diagnosed during one particular episode

Answer 3

only one–> classification scheme is designed to be mutually exclusive so that during a single episode, only one can be assigned

Question 4

why is the classification scheme for feeding and eating disorders designed to be mutually exclusive (leading to only one possible diagnosis in any single episode)

Answer 4

despite a number of common psychological and behavioural features, the disorders differ substantially in clinical course, outcome, and treatment needs

Question 5

which one feeding and eating disorder can be diagnosed in the presence of another feeding and eating disorder?

Answer 5

pica

the only one that can be diagnostically co-occurring

Question 6

feeding and eating disorders share patterns of symptoms and behaviours with which other group of psychiatric disorders? why do we think that is?

Answer 6

some people with feeding and eating disorders report eating related symptoms resembling those typically endorsed by those with SUDs (i.e craving, patterns of compulsive use)–>

may reflect the involvement of the same NEURAL NETWORKS–> regulatory self control and reward–> inboth sets of disorders (though poorly understood)

Question 7

is obesity included in the DSM

Answer 7

no–> not considered a mental disorder