Types of Eating Disorders

Anorexia nervosa is a fear of weight gain, the person will usually not eat, and obsesses over a thin figure. People who suffer from anorexia have the inability to see what their body truly looks like because they have a distorted body image.

Bulimia nervosa is episodes of binging and purging. A person will binge eat and consume large amounts of calories in a short time. They usually binge in secret. The person is afraid of gaining weight, so to undo the binge, they purge. Mostly by self-induced vomiting, meanwhile others are overdosing on laxatives and excessive exercise.

Binge eating is where a person consumes an abnormally large amount of food in a short period of time. During the binge, the person also feels a loss of control where they are not able to stop eating. In this instance, they don’t undo the binge by purging. Afterwards, they typically feel depressed and guilty.

Pica is persistently eating nonfood items. This can include things such as soap, cloth, talcum powder or dirt, over a period of at least a month. Eating these nonfood items can result in medical complications such as poisoning, intestinal problems or infections.

Rumination disorder is an eating disorder where the person(usually a child or infant) brings back up and re-chews partially digested food that has already been swallowed. Sometimes regurgitated food is rechewed and reswallowed or spit out.

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