Eating Conditions
The person restricts their food intake on their own and does not engage in binge-eating or purging behavior.
What is Anorexia nervosa: Restricting type?
Chronic fear that persists in the absence of any direct threat.
What is anxiety?
The physiological response to physical or psychological threat.
What is stress?
A disorder of emotion in which a person experiences periods of mania interspersed with periods of depression.
What is bipolar affective disorder?
The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association.
What is the DMS-V?
This person self-induces vomiting or abuses laxative, diuretics, or enemas.
What is anorexia nervosa: binge-eating / purging type.
Anxiety that is so extreme and pervasive that it disrupts normal functioning.
What is anxiety disorder?
Experiences that induce the stress response.
What are stressors?
Depression that is so severe that it is difficult for a person to meet the essential requirements of daily life.
What is clinical depression (major depressive disorder)?
A disorder of psychological function sufficiently severe to require treatment by a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist.
What is psychiatric disorder?
An eating disorder that is characterized by binge eating; eating an amount of food that is larger than what most people would eat and a sense of lacking any control over eating during the episode.
What is binge eating disorder?
Anxiety that is not precipitated by any obvious event; chronic and exaggerated worry and tension, even though nothing seems to provoke it.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Any physical disorder that can be caused or exacerbated by stress.
What is psychosomatic disorder?
Feeling sad and depressed for weeks or months on end, often accompanied by a sense of hopelessness, a lack of energy, and taking little or no pleasure in things that once gave a person joy in the past.
What is depression?
Intense, irrational fears of certain things or situations.
What are specific phobias?
An eating disorder that is characterized by recurring cycles of fasting, bingeing, and purging (usually) without dangerous weight loss; consuming large amounts of food and then ridding the body of the excess calories by vomiting, abusing laxatives or diuretics, taking enemas, or exercising obsessively.
What is bulimia nervosa?
An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent and disturbing thoughts (called obsessions) and / or repetitive, ritualized behaviors that the person feels driven to perform (called compulsions) driving a person to engage in unwanted, often-times distressing behaviors or thoughts.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
An anxiety disorder exhibited as a persistent pattern of psychological distress that follows a period of exposure to extreme stress; can occur from directly experiencing or witnessing an extremely traumatic, tragic, or terrifying event. People with PTSD usually have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and feel emotionally numb, especially with people they were once close to.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Depression that occurs with no apparent cause.
What is endogenous depression?
Between 25-33% of students meet criteria for this during their college experience.
A term for an eating disorder that is applied when an individual's symptoms cause significant distress but do not fit neatly within the strict criteria for anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder.
What is Other Specified Feeding & Eating Disorders?
What is social anxiety disorder?
Anxiety characterized by recurring rapid-onset attacks of extreme fear and severe symptoms of stress (choking, heart palpitations, and shortness of breath); feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly, most often with no warning.
What is panic disorder?
Depression that is triggered by a negative experience.
What is reactive depression?
This is currently the second most common cause of death among college students.
What is the prevalence of suicide on college campuses?