National Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Types of Eating Disorders

FACTS:

1. Anorexia Nervosa–“characterized by weight lost; difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for height, age, and stature; and, in many individuals, distorted body image” (NEDA).
2. Bulimia Nervosa–“characterized by a cycle of binge eating and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge-eating” (NEDA).
3. Binge Eating Disorder--“characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food; a feeling of a loss of control during the binge; experiencing shame, distress or guilt afterwards; and not regularly using unhealthy compensatory measures to counter the binge eating” (NEDA).
4.  Orthorexia–“and obsession with proper or ‘healthful’ eating” (NEDA).
5. Other Specified Eating or Eating Disorder aka OSFED–“encompasses individuals who do not meet strict criteria for anorexia or bulimia but still have a significant eating disorder” (NEDA).
6. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder aka AFRID–“involves limitations in the amount and/or types of consumed but does not involve any distress about body shape or size, or fears of fatness” (NEDA).
7. Pica–“involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and that does not contain nutritional value” (NEDA).
8. Rumination Disorder–“involves the regular regurgitation of food that occurs for at least one month” (NEDA).
9. Unspecified Feeding Eating Disorder aka UFED–“applies to presentations where symptoms characteristic of a feeding and eating disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the feeding and eating” (NEDA).
10. Laxative Abuse–“the repeat and frequent use of laxatives to eliminate unwanted calories or weight” (NEDA).
11. Compulsive Exercise–“extreme, excessive exercise that significantly interferes with areas of one’s life” (NEDA).

Those are just the basic definitions of each disorder, but below is the link to find out more of each disorder.

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/information-eating-disorder