Those diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, Binge-Eating/Purging Type are those that engage in restrictive behaviors as well binge eating and compensatory purging behaviors such as self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas [2].

What are the two types of anorexia?

Anorexia is officially categorized into two subtypes — the restricting type and the binge eating and purging type (8). Individuals with the restricting type lose weight solely through dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise.

What is classed as anorexia?

Anorexia is an eating disorder and serious mental health condition. People who have anorexia try to keep their weight as low as possible by not eating enough food or exercising too much, or both. This can make them very ill because they start to starve.

What is the difference between anorexia and anorexia?

Anorexia nervosa, however, is the name for the clinical eating disorder, the main symptom of which is self-starvation. The terms anorexia and anorexia nervosa have often been used interchangeably. They, however, are not synonymous. “Anorexia” used by itself simply describes a loss of appetite or inability to eat.

What does anorexia nervosa literally mean?

The term anorexia literally means loss of appetite. However, this definition is misleading as people with anorexia nervosa are often hungry but refuse food anyway. People with anorexia nervosa have intense fears of becoming fat and see themselves as fat even when they are very thin.

What it feels like to have anorexia?

Behavioral and physical signs include obsessing about weight, weight gain fears, eating only low-calorie foods, distorted body image, excessive exercising, feeling exhausted, dizzy, bloated, constipated, cold, irritable, distracted and unable to concentrate.