Anorexia nervosa
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- Created on: 30-01-17 12:18
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- Anorexia Nervosa
- Characterised by extreme loss of weight and anxiety associated with food and weight gain
- SYMPTOMS
- Deliberate weight loss
- DSM: persistent restriction of energy intake
- A sufferer will avoid food and drink and possibly take laxatives or exercise excessively
- Considered abnormal when it drops below 85% of normal weight
- Unrealistic body image
- DSM: Intense fear of gaining weight/ getting fat. Disturbed body image.
- Sufferers may think that they're fat when they're thin.
- Body image distortion occurs as thinness is vital to their self-esteem but they don't see the seriousness of their low body weight
- Physical symptoms
- Exhaustion
- Sleeping difficulties
- Concentration problems
- Dizziness
- Feeling cold
- Other symptoms
- Anxiety
- Depression is common
- OCD symptoms such as obsessions with eating and calorie counting can also occur
- Halmi et al interviewed 324 people with anorexia and found obsessional thoughts and compulsory behaviour in around 70% of them
- Deliberate weight loss
- FEATURES
- 90% of sufferers are women
- Around 95% of sufferers are aged 12-29
- Research suggests that around 465 of anorexia patients fully recover, 33% are improving and 20% remain chronically ill
- More common in western cultures
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