Psychological explanations of Anorexia and Bulimia

The psychological interpretation of anorexia and bulimia is based on the idea that women experience more male stress, Behar et al. We examined the effect of gender identity on eating disorders. Behar et al. It is intended to compare specific features of sexual identity in women with eating disorders and control group. Of the 126 participants, 63 had nervous anorexia or bulimia nervosa and 63 did not participate. Structured clinical interviews were based on the DSM-IV eating disorder diagnostic criteria and gender role list (BSRI).

Eating disorders (eg anorexia and bulimia) are psychological disorders characterized by severe disability of feeding behavior. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by refusal to maintain minimum normal body weight, and bulimia is characterized by compensatory behaviors such as recurrent overeating followed by voluntary vomiting (72). Eating disorders usually begin in adolescence and more than 90% of cases occur in women (72). Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa occur in up to 3% of adolescents and young adult women, and the incidence of anorexia nervosa appears to be increasing in recent decades (72) . Young people with eating disorders have lower self-esteem than the negative youth who is eating, the image of the body is negative, and emotions of discomfort, anxiety, social malfunction, depression and depression ( 73)

Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are psychological disorders including extreme disorders of feeding behavior. A young man with anorexia refuses to maintain normal weight. Bulimia people take repeated actions such as eating repeatedly, such as using vomiting or laxatives to remove food from the body. Overeating is characterized by uncontrolled overeating. Experts believe that many American girls are suffering from bulimia and keep this problem secret. Binging eating usually begins in late puberty and early adulthood. People with Binge Eating experience a cycle of eating a lot of food, vomiting, using laxatives or diuretics, aerobic exercise for hours, and resolving.

Eating disorders are psychological disorders characterized by severe disability of feeding behavior. Anorexia is characterized by the rejection of maintaining normal body weight. Binge eating is characterized by repeating compensatory action after overeating such as spontaneous vomiting (76). Diseases that do not meet all criteria for anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa are called eating disorders that have not been shown to be so. Female is more common in eating disorders than men. In women, the lifetime prevalence of anorexia nervosa is about 0.5%, and the lifetime prevalence of bulimia nervosa is 1% to 3% (76). The prevalence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is about one tenth of that of women.