Emotion Regulation
Anorexia Nervosa
Binge Eating Disorder
AN with Emotion Regulation
BED with Emotion Regulation
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What is emotion regulation?
It can include any coping strategy (problematic, adaptive, or maladaptive) that the individual uses when confronted with any unwanted intensity of emotion. It refers to ‘extrinsic or intrinsic processes responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and modifying emotional reactions, especially their intensive and temporal features, to accomplish one’s goals.'
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Are people who are anorexic typically overweight or underweight?
Underweight.
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What is one way to describe binge-eating disorder?
Recurrent episodes of binge eating, Eating too quickly even when you're not hungry, Feelings of guilt, embarrassment, or disgust.
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A person who is anorexic may feel powerless in many parts of their lives, but when it comes to eating, they have a sense of _______.
Control
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Food can be used as a coping strategy. TRUE OR FALSE?
True
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What is emotion dysregulation?
It is the difficulty or inability in coping with experiences or processing emotions.
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What is anorexia?
Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significantly low weight.
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Marked ______ regarding binge eating is present. Fill in the blank.
Distress.
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What types of life experiences may make someone more prone to anorexia? Your answer has to match one of ours in order to be correct.
•Childhood abuse •Emotional abuse •Negative home environment/neglect •Negative family environment
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What kinds of coping strategies is food used for?
Distraction, self-soothing, and brief relief from present emotional state.
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What is intrinsic emotion regulation?
It is internal processes being the self’s internal regulation. Regulating your own emotions.
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Can you name three symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
•Intense fear of becoming fat •Underweight •Restriction of energy intake •Dehydration •Fatigue •Fainting •Pale appearance •Distorted body image •Denial of low weight •Feelings of guilt after eating •Excessive and compulsive exercise •Low self-esteem
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How often does binge eating occur?
Binge eating has to occur on average at least once a week for 3 months.
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Studies have found that (underweight/overweight) individuals with AN have (more/less) emotion regulation difficulties than healthy controls and comparable emotion regulation problems as individuals with bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
Underweight More
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Is emotional eating conscious or unconscious?
Both. It can be conscious as well as unconscious.
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What is extrinsic emotion regulation?
It is external processes being external to the individual. Being able to regulate someone else's emotions.
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Blast from the Past! See if you can remember information from Dara’s distress and disorders course by completing the following: A person with anorexia nervosa has a persistent lack of recognition of the…
A person with anorexia nervosa has a persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
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When someone has binge eating disorder, they have a lack of what? And please explain
They have a lack of control over-eating during the episode
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Do you think that dietary restraints are a coping mechanism for people with anorexia?
•Yes
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Theories show that there is a particular food people turn to when in a state of negative emotion? What food is it and why?
Carbohydrates. It gives the body a comforting feeling.
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What does it mean to up- or down- regulate emotions?
Emotion regulation requires activation of a goal to up- or down- regulate (to increase or decrease) either the magnitude or duration of the emotional response.To decrease negative emotions or increase a positive emotions.
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Blast from the Past! See if you can remember information from Dara’s distress and disorders course by completing the following: A person with anorexia nervosa has a disturbance in the way in which one’s…
A person with anorexia nervosa has a disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.
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Blast from the Past! See if you can remember information from Dara’s distress and disorders course by answering the following: The binge-eating episodes are associated with three (or more) of the following:
•eating much more rapidly than normal •eating until feeling uncomfortably full •eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry •eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one is eating •feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty afterward
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______ with ______ ______ have consistently stated that the disorder helps them to ______ and ______ aversive emotions
Patients with Anorexia Nervosa have consistently stated that the disorder helps them to suppress and avoid aversive emotions
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Research indicates that emotional eating and binge eating in children and adolescents are associated with ______,______, and ______, which has previously been shown in adults. Also, the severity of binge eating has been found to be highly correlated with greater depressiveness and more negative self-evaluation in overweight adolescent (girls or boys)?.
Anxiety, Sadness, and Anger Girls
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