Eating Disorders Research Paper

Psychology 2
10 May 2014
Eating Disorders Many men and women suffer from eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are three common types of eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa is when a person has a compulsion to lose weight even though they are severely underweight. A person that is bulimic has a compulsion to eat a great amount of food, then vomit or take laxatives to get rid of the food. Binge-eating disorder is when a person has a compulsion to binge, then becomes depressed and guilty about the amount of food they eat. Someone with anorexia often see themselves as overweight even though they are extremely thin. They refuse to eat, exercise a ton and contain unusual sting habits. They often refuse
Someone with a binge eating disorder keeps eating even when they are full and can go a long period of time without eating. They tend to eat their food quickly, not even really tasting the food. Binge eating is often compared to bulimia because of the vomiting, but unlike bulimia, there are no regular attempt to make up for the binges through vomiting, fasting, and excessive exercising. Common behavioral symptoms of a binge eater or a compulsive overeater includes: the inability to stop eating or controlling what you’re eating, eating a great amount of food rapidly, eating while full, hiding food to eat later in secret, and eating normally with others, but gorge themselves with food in private. A binge eater always has many emotional symptoms. These symptoms include: being unsatisfied with what they are eating, embarrassment on overeating and feeling guilty. Binge eating can lead to many problems with a person’s health. Gallbladder disease, high cholesterol, cancer and even sleep
One’s family deeply affects a person that has an eating disorder. Negative self-evaluation by one’s family could be one of the factors to which the person has an eating disorder. Childhood obesity running in the family could be a factor to which a bulimic has a disorder. For someone who is anorexic, families that are protective and competitive can affect eating disorders. Many women look up to the media for their weight ideals, they see actresses and model and aspire to look like them. Eating disorders are serious and greatly affect ones life. People are affected by eating disorders in many ways. Emotional symptoms in eating disorders include: anxiety, depression, and low self esteem. Physical symptoms include: muscle weakness, slowing of the heart rate, kidney failure, fainting and severe hair loss. People suffering from an eating disorder have an extreme body ideal and contain an unrealistic body image, they often feel inferior. Having an eating disorder causes many physiological and physical changes in a person’s body. Weight loss, sensitivity to the weather, hypersensitivity, sleep disturbances (waking up through the night), slow pulse, and irregular periods are all examples of physical changes that may happen to a person that suffers with an easing disorder. Changes in mood also occur in a person with an eating disorder, this includes: an unstable mod, irritability and their sense of humor being lost.