PsychBusting: Anorexia Nervosa
Channel: PsψchBusters
Date: 2015-11-27

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In this video, PsychBusters explains what Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder, really is.

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TRANSCRIPT:

What is Anorexia Nervosa?
 The term anorexia nervosa literally means “lack of appetite induced by nervousness,” but the lack of appetite is not necessarily the heart of this disorder. There are intense fears of gaining weight or becoming fat, and sufferers aren’t satisfied with simply being thin. Instead, they desire to be excessively thin, lower than the minimum healthy body weight. However, they see themselves fatter than they actually are.
 According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual For Mental Disorders, or the DSM-5, a person may be diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa if:

"A. Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health. Also, significantly low weight is defined as a weight that is less than minimally normal or, for children and adolescents, less than that minimally expected. 
B. Intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significantly low weight. 
C. Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight."

There are also two types of Anorexia Nervosa. The first is the restricting type, where the sufferer participates in excessive dieting, fasting, and/or excessive exercise. No binge-purge episodes have occurred… which are present in the second type: the binge eating-purging type. Sufferers with this type of anorexia nervosa have participated in binge eating and purging behaviours, such as vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. This second type of anorexia nervosa should not be confused with bulimia nervosa, and could be differentiated by checking the weight of the sufferer. Patients with anorexia nervosa are required to be severely underweight, but not so for sufferers of bulimia nervosa.