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Eating disorder is a mental health condition characterized by abnormal eating behaviors and distorted relationship with food, weight, and body image. It goes beyond typical concerns about weight and appearance and often involves intense preoccupations and distress related to food and body image.
Learn MoreSuch as severe calorie restriction.
Characterized by consuming large amounts of food in a short period.
Such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives or diuretics.
Seeing oneself as overweight or obese.
Such as weight loss or fluctuation, fatigue.
Withdrawal from social activities involving food.
There is evidence that genetic factors can play a role in the predisposition to eating disorders.
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Psychological factors can significantly influence the development of eating disorders.
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Societal and cultural influences can contribute to the development of eating disorders.
Learn MoreEating disorders have the HIGHEST risk of death of any mental illness.
They're all associated with a huge disconnect from the body as if the body were nonexistent.
Females. Women are considered to be the population most impacted by eating disorders.
Anorexia nervosa is the least common of the three eating disorder.
Anorexia Nervosa, Experts consider anorexia nervosa to be the most deadly of all because it has the highest mortality rate.
Trauma, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental health issues.
Our brain functioning is impacted and shows signs of problems when we struggle with an eating disorder.
Bulimia Nervosa is the eating disorder that co-occurs with major depressive disorder the most.
For many, one of the reasons that eating disorders are so powerful is that they are self protective in nature.
The most common age of onset is between 12-25. Although much more common in females, 10^ of cases detected are in males.
Eating disorder had actually runied my life. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror for a whole month. I was scared that I would hate myself even more after looking at my own reflection.
My ED started three years ago, when i was still in 7th grade. But it grew progressively worse throughout the year. I am so obssesed with calorie intake and going to parties, I'm terrified that i would devour all the food and gain weight the next day.
I started exercising 2 times a day and limited my food intake because i was too obsessed to reach my previous weight which is 38 altough that time, i was 40kg.
Looking back, eating disorder really mess me up because i was already underweight but wanted to be even more underweight, which was pretty much horrible.
I started not eating dinner and cut of sugar for 3 entire month and on the 4th month got hospitalized due to low glukose. -not fun experience at all guys, dont starve yourself k.