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Eating disorders are mental illnesses that involve serious disturbances in eating behaviors and can manifest as eating extremely small or large amounts of food. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, which are characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, binge eating followed by purging, and frequent episodes of uncontrolled binge eating respectively. Eating disorders often co-occur with other mental illnesses and are most common among adolescents and young adults, though they can develop at any age. While recovery can take time, eating disorders are treatable through a multidisciplinary approach involving medical, nutritional, and mental health professionals.

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Eating disorders are mental illnesses that involve serious disturbances in eating behaviors and can manifest as eating extremely small or large amounts of food. Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, which are characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight, binge eating followed by purging, and frequent episodes of uncontrolled binge eating respectively. Eating disorders often co-occur with other mental illnesses and are most common among adolescents and young adults, though they can develop at any age. While recovery can take time, eating disorders are treatable through a multidisciplinary approach involving medical, nutritional, and mental health professionals.

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Eating Disorder?

Eating disorders are mental illnesses that cause serious disturbances in a persons everyday diet

It can manifest as eating extremely small amounts of food

or severely overeating.

The condition may begin as just eating too little or too much

These disorders frequently coexist with other mental illnesses such as depression, substance abuse, or anxiety disorders

Who gets eating disorders?

Eating disorders can affect both men and women and are slightly more common among women.

Often these disorders begin during adolescence or young adulthood but may also develop during childhood or later in life.

Types of eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa This is characterized by an intense fear of being obese and a continued pursuit of becoming thin.

Bulimia nervosa

Binge-eating disorder

Anorexia nervosa
There is a loss of at least 15 percent of body weight resulting from refusal to eat adequately despite feeling hungry.

There is an unnatural fear of becoming fat.

There is a distortion of selfperception.

Thin anorexics may feel they are fat.

There may be a tendency to exercise obsessively.

Bulimia nervosa
These patients first eat too much (binging) and then purge or vomit it all out. Eating binges involve consumption of large amounts of calorie-rich foods.

The person feels totally out of control and self-disgust during these periods.

This could be by self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives.

Binge eating disorder


This is characterized by frequent episodes of binge eating. Individuals feel loss of control during these binge episodes.

The binge eating can lead to serious health consequences such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension.

Treatment for eating disorders

Eating disorders can be effectively treated.

The earlier they are detected, the easier it is to treat them.

Recovery can take months or years, but the majority of people recover. Once diagnosed, treatment is a multidisciplinary approach.

The health care providers involved include psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, dieticians or nutritional advisers, social workers, occupational therapists and nurses.

Treatment includes diet education and advice, psychological interventions and treatment of concurrent mental ailments like depression and anxiety disorders.

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