The first symptoms of OCD often begin during childhood or adolescence. About 30 percent of Vietnam veterans experienced PTSD at some point after the war. GAD can begin at any time, though the risk is highest between childhood and middle age. Social phobia typically begins in childhood or adolescence. In their lifetime, an estimated 0.5 percent to 3.7 percent of females suffer from anorexia and an estimated 1.1 percent to 4.2 percent suffer from bulimia.
Females are much more likely than males to develop an eating disorder.
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