Exam 11: Feeding and Eating Disorders

Blake Wilcox is a 28 year old young woman with a history of anorexia nervosa. She has been in counseling off and on for the past 10 years. She returns to the counseling center and confides to the social worker that for the past 3 months her fear of gaining weight has returned but this time around she does not purge; that is, Blake does not self-induce vomiting after eating. Instead, Blake has put herself on a strict regimen of dieting, interspersed with fasting and excessive exercise. What type of anorexia does Blake have?

The two types of anorexia nervosa include restricting and bingeing.

Use the following terms to answer: Anorexia nervosa Binge eatin Binge eating disorder (BED) Grazing Pica Purging Rumination -_______________ behaviors such as self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives) often deplete essential body sustaining minerals including potassium, sodium, magnesium, phosphate, and chloride.

Eating disorders are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior, maladaptive and unhealthy efforts to control body weight, and abnormal attitudes about body, weight and shape.

Two subtypes identified in bulimia nervosa include, purging and restricting.

Individuals who are diagnosed with a restricting subtype of anorexia nervosa are:

Purging refers to:

Use the following terms to answer: Anorexia nervosa Binge eatin Binge eating disorder (BED) Grazing Pica Purging Rumination -The absence of three menstrual cycles, while significant, is one no longer of the essential signs used to assess the presence of _______________.

During the current episode of binge eating-purging type of anorexia nervosa, the individual regularly engages in binge eating or purging behavior, for example self-induced vomiting, or misuse of laxatives, enemas, or diuretics.

Alberta Rynner, age seventeen, started dieting to lose weight because her boyfriend, Paul, thought she was "too fat." Her diet consisted of eating no more than a banana and drinking two cups of plain tea each day. At the beginning of her diet, she weighed 130 pounds. By the end of five months she lost thirty-five pounds and was exhibiting some medical complications that included cold intolerance, constipation, painful swelling of her fingers, knees, and elbows. Additionally, Alberta reports she has not had a normal menstrual cycle for the past three months. Her most likely diagnosis would be: