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3. Eating Disorder Treatment

   1. Anorexia Nervosa
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Bulimia Nervosa (BN)

Symptoms/Signs

• Eating an unusual abundance of food in a discrete period of time (ie, 2 hours).
• A sense of being out of control over eating during the episode.
• Recurrent use of behaviors to compensate for binge eating to prevent weight gain.
• Binge eating and compensating behavior occurs at least twice per week for three months.
• Bodyweight heavily influences one’s self-evaluation.
• PURGING TYPE — To compensate for a binge, the person regularly engages in self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, and/or enemas.
• NON-PURGING TYPE — To compensate for a binge, the person regularly engages in fasting and/or excessive exercise.
  
  American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2000).

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