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Feeding and Eating Disorders
People with feeding and eating disorders experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. They may become so preoccupied with food and weight issues that they find it harder and harder to focus on other aspects of their life.
Over time, these behaviors can significantly impair physical health and psychosocial functioning.
There are three main types of eating disorders:
- Anorexia nervosa: Consistently restricting or avoiding food to lose weight, regardless of body weight
- Bulimia nervosa: Episodes of eating a lot of food followed by attempts to remove the food through behaviors like vomiting, fasting, or using laxatives
- Binge-eating disorder: Episodes of eating a lot of food, but without trying to remove the food
