One myth that flutters around here and there is that the eating disorder is just a lifestyle disorder and not a mental disorder. It is more of a emotional unrest of mind that my even be fatal. Obsession with food, body mass, and body shape may also point towards an eating disorder.
Types of eating disorder
1.Anorexia nervosa Eating Disorder
2.Bulimia nervosa Eating Disorder
3.Binge-eating disorder
Signs and Symptoms
Anorexia nervosa
In this condition a person feels himself as overweight even when they are normal or even under weight. To shed off weight they start starving or get on severe dieting. They even abuse their body wit use of laxatives or purgatives to lose weight. Anorexia nervosa has the highest rate of fatality out of all three eating disorders. Is this disorder people die of organ complication or even by suicide.
Consultant Dr BhawanaSymptoms of anorexia nervosa are as follows:
Other common presentations that may develop over time, includes:
Bulimia nervosa
In this type of eating disorder people lack control over eating and ends up consuming large amount of high calorie food. To cover up the guilt of over eating this is followed by compensating behaviour like forced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, severe starvations, extreme physical workouts or even combinations of these. People suffering from bulimia nervosa eating disorder may be moderate or slight overweight or even slight under weight.
Symptoms of Bulimia nervosa may include following:
Binge-eating disorder
In this type of Eating disorder people tend to lose control over their eating. In contrast to the Bulimia nervosa eating disorder, these people do nothing to throw the ingested food. There by these people are often sufferings from obesity. These days this type of eating disorder is most common.
Symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder include:
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