Eating Disorders

Book
In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan.
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Excerpt

Eating disorders are defined as the disruption in the eating behavior with excessive concern about body weight that impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning. Eating disorders can present as severe psychiatric illnesses associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has changed the terminology “Eating disorders” to “Feeding and Eating Disorders.” DSM-5 mentions eight categories in feeding and eating disorders.

  1. Anorexia nervosa

  2. Bulimia nervosa

  3. Binge eating disorder

  4. Avoidant or restrictive food intake disorder

  5. Pica

  6. Rumination

  7. Other specified feeding and eating disorders:

    1. Purging disorder

    2. Night eating syndrome

    3. Atypical anorexia nervosa

    4. Subthreshold bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder

    5. Orthorexia

  9. Unspecified feeding and eating disorders

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