Lesson 10 - Eating Disorders, Dependency, Systems Theory, and Demonization

Question 1

What is bulimia?

Answer 1

“ox hunger”; a binge and purge pattern of eating

Question 2

What are some characteristics of eating disorders?

Answer 2

• • Main characteristic is perfectionism
• • Physical beauty is very important
• • Workaholism results from desire to be a super achiever
• • The tend to be highly moralistic
• • they have a great fear of intimacy

Question 3

What are the double messages of eating disordered families?

Answer 3

1. ) Love-Rejection bind: “I love you but don’t bother me”
2. ) Expectation of support which seldom comes through
3. ) Denial of the truth
4. ) The dream that “all will work out”

Question 4

What is co-dependency?

Answer 4

• • an individual who has allowed another person’s behavior to affect them
• • an individual who is obsessed with controlling another person’s behavior

Question 5

What are 3 areas Christians can learn from co-dependency?

Answer 5

1. ) Codependency gives people a way to deal with their past (inner child)
2. ) Codependency speaks well into the issue of the 90’s: control
3. ) Codependency speaks well into the fact that we are needy/messy people.

Question 6

What is systems theory?

Answer 6

Main premise is that man is not isolated (“man is not himself without his context or circumstances” - Ortega)

Question 7

Who developed the triangulation theory? What was it?

Answer 7

Manuchen

• • the individuals int he family absorb the conflict int he family
• • big in divorced families

Question 8

What are some assumptions in systems theory?

Answer 8

1. ) System theory works in a group
2. ) If a family member changes everyone in the group needs to adjust
3. ) The family becomes more complex and organized over time
4. ) The family is open and willing to change
5. ) Individual dysfunction is a reflection of the system

Question 9

What are some characteristics of demonic possession?

Answer 9

1. ) The demon possessed person has no awareness of spiritual conflict
2. ) A truly possessed person has no normal response to physical pain
3. ) The possessed person has a total loss of control
4. ) The people around the possessed individual agree that there is evil involved
5. ) Roman Catholic Church adds that the possessed person has a knowledge of unknown languages, knowledge of remote things, unnatural strength and has an aversion to the things of God or things of the church

Question 10

What is the difference between possession and psychotic?

Answer 10

1. ) The psychotic person will respond to pain in a normal way
2. )Psychotic people will be delusional about God
3. ) Medication is effective with a psychotic person (there will be a change of behavior with medicine)

Question 11

How do you treat?

Answer 11

• • Oppression: Confess, Meet with the elders, communion, intervention
• • Possession: Exorcism/Healing