Lecture 9 - Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse Disorders Flashcards
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What are the 3 eating disorders?
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating Disorder
What is the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa?
- Refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight
- Intense anxiety about weight gain or becoming fat, despite being underweight
- Significant disturbance in perception of size or shape of body, or denial or seriousness of current low body weight
- In women, amenorrhea
What are the 2 types of Anorexia nervosa?
Restricting type
Binge eating/purging type
The word anorexia is a misnomer meaning
Lack of appetite
When is the onset of anorexia
mid to late adolescence
Within the first 5 years of anorexia, many individuals developed ______, which may alter the diagnosis
binge eating and purging
Compared to the general population, which type of disorders are somewhat more prevalent in people with anorexia?
Personality disorders
What is the diagnositc criteria for bulimia nervosa
- Binge eating and inappropriate compensatory methods to prevent weight gain (twice per week for three months)
- Self-evaluation is unduly (greatly) influenced by body shape and/or weight
Why is it sometimes harder to notice bulimia nervosa?
Individuals with bulimia are typically within normal weight range, but can be slightly over or underweight
What was the most common diagnosis in this categery until binge-eating disorder was listed in DSM 5?
Eating disorder NOS (not otherwise specified)
Of males with eating disorder, up to _____ identify as gay or bisexual
40%
What is the prevalence of anorexia?
- 3% F
0. 02% M
What is the prevalence of bulimia?
1% F
0.1% M
what is the rate of complete remission/partial remission in eating disorders?
> 50-80% in complete remission
and higher rate of partial remission
What disorders have the highest direct mortality rate of any mental illness
Eating disorders (electrolyte imbalance leading to organ failure, dehydration, suicide, susceptibility to other illness)
Bulimia and binge eating type of anorexia are distinguished by
objective body weight (you will be eating same amounts ish however in bulimia you will be weighing less, and binge-eating you will be higher weight)
Non-purging bulimia and binge eating disorder are distinguished by the presence of
other inappropriate compensatory behavirs in bulimia
What is the female athlete triad
In competitive athletes, if suffering from one of these quite likely to have the others: disordered eating, abnormal periods, osteoporosis
the female athlete triad is particularly common in _____ sports and to a lesser extent in _____ sports
Aesthetic
Endurance
Genetics account for ____ of variance in eating disorders
50%
what are traits associated with anorexia?
- self-esteem and self-efficacy are usually very low, and is strongly linked to perceptions about weight
- perfectionism
- weight loss is often viewed as a significant and impressive achievement and a sign of self-control
- weight loss is usually reinforced (initially)
What are 3 traits associated with bulimia and binge-eating?
Impulsivity
Emotionality
poor interoceptive awareness
What is the relationships with traumatic/adverse events and eating disorders?
They may precipitate EDs, but are not thought to be causal
What is orthorexia nervosa?
- This is a non-diagnostic term used to describe a pattern of extremely unhealthy obsessions with eating correctly, which goes well beyond dieting or normal healthy eating
often occurs in or before eating disorders
