Topic 15 - Eating Disorders Flashcards
When someone has an eating disorder, their ______ is the prime focus of their life. Their all-consuming preoccupation with calories, grams of fat, and ________ allows them to displace the painful emotions or situations that are at the heart of the problem and gives them a false sense of being in _______.
Weight
Exercise
Control
Eating disorders are a way of ______ with deeper problems that the person finds too painful or difficult to deal with directly. They are complex conditions that signal difficulties with ________, self-concept and self esteem.
Coping
Identity
T/F - Eating disorders are a mental illness and ultimately have everything to do with food, eating, appearance and beauty.
False - Eating disorders are a mental illness and ultimately have LITTLE to do with food, eating, appearance OR beauty.
T/F - There is a continuation of an eating disorder illness long after a person has reached their initial “target” weight.
True
Eating disorders are usually related to emotional issues such as control and low ____ ______ and often exist as part of a “____” diagnosis of major depression, anxiety or OCD.
Self Esteem
“Dual”
T/F - An eating disorder is not centrally about food or weight. It is a mental illness with complex medical and psychiatric features.
True
Eating disorders are characterized by abnormalities affecting:
- Mood and personality
- Identity, sense of self, self esteem & sense of self-worth
- Perception of ____ size & shape
- Feelings of ______ & satiety
- Perceptions about food & the role of foods in health
- Relationship to nourishment needs (physical & emotional)
- Handling of strong emotions & emotional needs
- Understanding of what constitutes fitness, success & ______________
Body
Hunger
Attractiveness
T/F - Eating disorders are most typically found in societies with scarce food, and where the relationship between food consumption and food production is direct.
False - Eating disorders are most typically found in societies with PLENTIFUL food, and where the relationship between food consumption and food production is NO LONGER direct.
T/F - Eating disorders are on the rise worldwide and the correlation with “young affluent white women” is not as central as it has been in the past.
True
Irregularities in eating patterns and related behaviours that can be risky to health and may lead to eating disorder development.
Disordered Eating
The term “eating disorder” generally connotes a ____________ state that has evolved to a health-___________ stage.
Pathological
Threatening
A generic term that is overarching one for referring to the universe of eating-related disorders.
Pathorexia
A condition in which the person under-eats or overeats to the marked detriment of physical and/or mental health.
Eating Disorder
T/F - Eating disorders are easy for health professionals to identify and to treat effectively.
False - Eating disorders are CHALLENGING for health professionals to identify and to treat effectively.
Almost ____ of all North Americans know someone with an eating disorder.
Half
