What is a disordered eating behavior?
Disordered eating sits on a spectrum between normal eating and an eating disorder and may include symptoms and behaviours of eating disorders, but at a lesser frequency or lower level of severity. Disordered eating may include restrictive eating, compulsive eating, or irregular or inflexible eating patterns.
What sorts of Behaviours does a person with anorexia display?
Psychological warning signs
- Preoccupation with eating, food, body shape and weight.
- Feeling anxious and or irritable around meal times.
- Feeling ‘out of control’ around food.
- ‘Black and white’ thinking (e.g. rigid thoughts about food being ‘good’ or ‘bad’)
- A distorted body image.
What are 3 common characteristics of people with anorexia?
Physical signs and symptoms of anorexia may include:
- Extreme weight loss or not making expected developmental weight gains.
- Thin appearance.
- Abnormal blood counts.
- Fatigue.
- Insomnia.
- Dizziness or fainting.
- Bluish discoloration of the fingers.
- Hair that thins, breaks or falls out.
What are 3 common behaviors or habits of people with bulimia?
Repetitive inappropriate self-induced compensated behaviors such a vomiting, diuretic use, laxative use, and extreme exercise (purging) in order to avoid weight gain potentially causes by the bingeing episodes.
What are some common muscle disorders?
Common primary diseases of the muscular system include inflammatory myopathies, such as polymyositis and dermatomyositis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, rhabdomyolysis, and cardiomyopathy, among others.
When do people struggle with an eating disorder?
When an individual is struggling with an eating disorder, they generally engage in multiple behaviors. These behaviors can involve food or may relate to body image or mood. Judging by these behaviors alone would be insufficient: many people eat health foods or consume large quantities of food and do not have eating disorders.
What to look for in someone with an eating disorder?
What to watch for if you are concerned someone you care about might be developing an eating disorder. An eating disorder is any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits. This pattern of eating leads to disruption in someone’s behaviors, thinking, and mood.
What are the three factors of an eating disorder?
There are three key factors: behaviors, obsession, and functionality. When an individual is struggling with an eating disorder, they generally engage in multiple behaviors. These behaviors can involve food or may relate to body image or mood.
What are two lesser known dysfunctional eating behaviors?
Two lesser-known dysfunctional eating behaviors include rumination disorder (food is regurgitated back into the mouth, without pain, and sometimes without intent) and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (lack of interest in eating for a variety of reasons, none of which have anything to do with weight).
How do people with an eating disorder deal with their emotions?
People with eating disorders use food to deal with uncomfortable or painful emotions. Restricting food is used to feel in control. Overeating temporarily soothes sadness, anger, or loneliness. Purging is used to combat feelings of helplessness and self-loathing.
How can you tell if someone has an eating disorder?
People with a disorder may obsess about food a little differently. They may seem to always be on a diet and watching what they eat. They may know excess information about unhealthy food and have a very picky taste. It’s also a bad sign if someone brings up food and diets constantly in conversation.
How to externalize the thought of an eating disorder?
Before accepting your thought as a command to follow, externalize it. For example, when you have the thought, “ I can’t eat a bagel ,” label it as “an eating disorder thought” and rephrase it as “My eating disorder is telling me not to have a bagel.”
When to label a thought as an eating disorder?
For example, when you have the thought, “ I can’t eat a bagel ,” label it as “an eating disorder thought” and rephrase it as “My eating disorder is telling me not to have a bagel.”