Eating Disorders

Basic Questions

100

Are you at higher risk for suicide if you have an eating disorder?

Yes

200

What does eating disorder mean?

Any range of phycological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits 

300

What are the most common types of eating disorders?

Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder

400

What are the symptoms?(List any)

• Extremely restricted eating and/or intensive and excessive exercise
• Extreme thinness (emaciation)
• A relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight
• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Distorted body image, a self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape, or a denial of the seriousness of low body weight

500

Should you just be able to stop worrying about it and fix it yourself?

You can, but it would be better to consult a doctor.

Vocabulary

100

What is binge-eating?

When binge eating occurs at least once a week for a period of three months, in the absence of any purging behaviors

200

What is body checking?

Obsessive, intrusive thoughts and behaviors about body shape and size that can involve repeatedly checking appearance in the mirror

300

What is Drunkorexia?

A slang term for someone who struggles with an eating disorder and alcohol abuse

400

What is Anorexia nervosa?

involving self-starvation and the inability to maintain a healthy and appropriate body weight

500

What is Atypical anorexia?

An eating disorder in which a person meets some, but not all, of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa

True/False

100

Is binge eating an eating disorder?

True

200

Can anyone be affected by eating disorders?

True

300

Is it more common for men to get eating disorders?

False

400

most people recover from eating disorders?

True, usually

500

1 in 25 women have an eating disorder

False