Table of Contents
1. EATING DISORDERS
- eating disorders are mental illnesses that cause serious disturbances in a person's everday diet
- it can manifest as eating extremely small amounts of food or severely overeating
- may begin as just eating too little or too much/obsession that takes our their life
1.1. TYPES OF EATING DISORDERS
1.1.1. ANOREXIA NERVOSA
- one is obessed with becoming thin that they reach extreme measures and this leads to extreme weight loss
1.1.2. BULIMIA NERVOSA
- an eating disorder which one starts to consume large amounts of food at once and then is followed by purging, using laxatives or overexercising to rid themselves of the food they ate
1.1.3. BINGE EATING DISORDER
- is a disorder in which someone eats alot of food at a time but they don't vomit
1.2. USUAL FACTORS
- low self-esteems
- feelings of inadequacy or failure
- feeling out of control
- response to change
- response to stress
- personal illness
1.3. INTERPERSONAL FACTORS
- troubled family and personal relationships
- difficulty expressing emotions and feelings
- history of being teased or ridiculed based on size or weight
- history of physical or sexual abuse
1.4. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS
- cultural pressures that glorify thinness and place value on obtaining the perfect body
- narrow definitions of beauty that include only women and men of specific body weights and shapes
- cultural norms that value people on the basis of physical appearance and not inner qualities and strengths
1.5. BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
- often run in the family
- genetic component: research about the brain and eating in taking place (certain chemicals in the brain conrol hunger, appetite and digestion have been found unbalanced)