Anorexia Nervosa
This is a key feature of anorexia nervosa involving a distorted self-perception.
What is distorted body image?
People with bulimia nervosa often keep their body weight in this range, unlike those with anorexia.
What is the normal or average weight range?
This is the name of the eating disorder where a person eats a very large amount of food in a short time and feels like they can't stop.
What is Binge Eating Disorder (BED)?
Beyond issues like low blood pressure and muscle wasting, the most severe consequence of an eating disorder is the potential for structural and functional damage to this vital organ, which can lead to heart failure and death.
What is the heart (or the cardiovascular system)?
An important non-medical component of recovery, this approach encourages flexible eating and listening to the body's hunger and fullness cues without guilt or rigidity.
What is intuitive eating?
A defining physical characteristic of this disorder is maintaining a body weight that is significantly below the minimum normal range.
What is anorexia nervosa?
The loss of this vital mineral due to frequent vomiting can seriously affect heart function and potentially lead to heart failure.
What is potassium (or electrolytes)?
A person with BED often feels this emotion after a binge, which is why they sometimes try to hide their eating.
What is guilt, shame, or embarrassment?
Starvation and inadequate nutrition, hallmarks of anorexia nervosa, can cause the body to grow a fine, downy layer of hair to conserve warmth. This hair is called this.
What is lanugo?
This is a life-threatening, urgent situation that sometimes occurs during the initial stages of nutritional restoration, caused by rapid shifts in fluids and electrolytes.
What is refeeding syndrome?
A mental health professional who is a medical doctor and can prescribe medication is called this.
What is a psychiatrist?
This is one of the most common physical signs of purging, which can include a chronically sore throat or swollen salivary glands.
What is self-induced vomiting?
To be diagnosed, the binge eating must happen, on average, at least once a week for a total period of this many months.
What are three months?
What are some potential long-term consequences of frequent vomiting as a result of an eating disorder?
What are dental problems or a chronically inflamed and sore throat?
Often used in treating bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, this therapy helps individuals identify and modify dysfunctional thought patterns and behaviors related to eating and body image.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Individuals with the "binge-eating/purging type" of anorexia engage in these specific behaviors, which distinguishes them from the "restrictive type."
What are purging or binge eating behaviors?
According to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, both binge eating and compensatory behaviors must occur on average at least this many times per week for three months.
What is once per week?
Unlike Bulimia Nervosa, a person with BED does not regularly do this type of behavior, like forced vomiting or over-exercising, to "make up" for the binge.
What are compensatory behaviors (or purging)?
This condition, characterized by a reduction in bone density, is a major, and often irreversible, long-term consequence of anorexia nervosa due to severe malnutrition.
This form of therapy involves a patient, their family, and a treatment team working together to help the patient regain weight and restore healthy eating patterns, especially common in adolescent anorexia treatment.
What is Family-Based Treatment (FBT) or the Maudsley approach?
This is the term for fine, downy hair that can grow on the body of an individual with severe anorexia as a way to keep warm.
What is Lanugo?
This term describes the recurring actions used to prevent weight gain after a binge, such as self-induced vomiting, excessive exercise, or using laxatives.
What are compensatory behaviors?
The goal of this common type of talk therapy is to help people with BED identify and change the negative thoughts that lead to binge eating.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A serious and potentially life-threatening medical complication in both anorexia and bulimia is an imbalance in these essential minerals, which are crucial for heart function.
What are electrolyte imbalances (or hypokalemia)?
This level of care typically involves a structured, daily program where patients attend multiple therapy sessions and receive supervised meals, but return home in the evenings.
What is Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)?