Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behavior and in attitudes toward food, body weight, and shape that impair physical health and psychosocial functioning. Recognized forms include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, along…
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behavior and in attitudes toward food, body weight, and shape that impair physical health and psychosocial functioning. Recognized forms include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, alongside related presentations such as night eating syndrome and the proposed construct of orthorexia nervosa, an excessive preoccupation with healthy or "pure" eating. They typically emerge in adolescence or early adulthood and affect individuals across sexes and backgrounds. Etiology is multifactorial, reflecting genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and sociocultural influences. Dysfunctional cognitions about weight and appearance, emotional dysregulation, and external pressures, including media and social-media depictions of body and health, contribute to onset and maintenance. Eating disorders frequently co-occur with depression, anxiety, and other psychopathology, and longitudinal patterns link disordered eating to broader emotional and behavioral symptoms. Medical consequences range from nutritional, metabolic, and gastrointestinal complications to cardiovascular and endocrine disturbance, and can be life threatening. Assessment may require distinguishing eating disorders from organic disease. Management is multidisciplinary, combining psychological therapies, nutritional rehabilitation, and medical care. Research addresses diagnosis, sleep and psychopathological correlates, quality of life, and the prevention and treatment of these complex conditions.
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