Unit 7: Eating DIsorders (video)

Question 1

Classifications of Eating Disorders

Answer 1

• Anorexia nervosa is probably the most common eating disorder, or one of the most familiar I should say.
• This is more of that restrictive eating, so people are restricting calorie intake.
• There’s typically an association with distorted body image where somebody doesn’t notice how thin they’re actually getting.
• And it is a actual refusal, but not a cognitive refusal or conscious refusal, but a refusal to maintain a normal body weight.
• It actually manifests more as a fear.

Question 2

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 2

One of the most familiar eating disorders most commonly known.

• This manifests as a profound refusal to maintain a normal body weight, but a refusal not in the sense of a conscious refusal, more of a fear in maintaining a normal body weight.
• People who have or experiencing anorexia have a distorted body image and feel as though the fat is something that they need to control in order to maintain a healthy perspective on themselves.

Question 3

Bulimia

Answer 3

Another one of the more common eating disorders.

• Includes both binge eating as well as purging of the food.
• The most common aspect of bulimia, or the most hallmark one with that, is the purging of food to avoid weight gain.
• Typically, there is going to be some level of calorie restriction with bulimia as well, whereas with anorexia it is only calorie restriction.
• Bulimia will include points at which clients will be so full of anxiety or fear that they will engage in types of binge eating behaviors, then result with purging to be able to avoid the weight gain.

Question 4

Purging

Answer 4

Could be done in many forms.

• The purging could be in actually physically regurgitating the food that they have intake or that they have taken in, or it could be that they are using laxatives or other substances in order to prevent any of the substances from going through their systems, or this could be exercise as a purging of calorie intake.
• We see excessive exercise in these situations as being a way to purge calorie intake that they have engaged in

Question 5

Binge eating Disorder

Answer 5

Disorder in which bulimia not result in purging. So, binge eating disorder is reoccurring episodes of excessive eating within a small period of time. What this is a result of … And this isn’t just going out to dinner and having a large meal or overeating at a party or things like that.

• This is usually done in isolation, usually done at times that are off or away from other people that could witness these types of behaviors.
• The binge-eating episodes are somebody’s experiences as a perceived sense of lack of control over the eating.
• Once they engage in a binge-eating behavior or a pattern of this binge eating, those episodes that occur, they physically don’t feel as though they can stop.
• They have to keep going. And there’s not really a conscious effort to … or not a conscious effort but not a conscious awareness of the food that’s going into their body.