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Eating Disorders

Do you feel too fat? Not pret­ty like the oth­ers? Do you fear weight gain? Are you ashamed of your physique? Eat­ing dis­or­ders are behav­iour­al dis­or­ders in which the con­stant men­tal and emo­tion­al pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with the top­ic of “eat­ing” plays a cen­tral role. It can either be the gen­er­al intake of food or its refusal. This is usu­al­ly relat­ed to psy­choso­cial prob­lems as well as the atti­tude towards one’s own body (psy­cho­so­mat­ic)

Eat­ing dis­or­ders can lead to seri­ous and long-term dam­age and some­times even death. Well-known dis­or­ders include for exam­ple bulim­ia, where binge eat­ing is fol­lowed by purg­ing, or anorex­ia, where the over­all food intake is lim­it­ed to the absolute min­i­mum or even noth­ing at all.

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