Eating Disorders Anorexia The current system of psychiatric classification, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 1994), includes two official eating disorder (ED) syndromes: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and a third (still provisional) diagnosis, binge-eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa (AN) is defined by a relentless pursuit of thinness and a morbid fear of the consequences of eating (usually expressed as a dread of weight gain or obesity). An eating disorder where preoccupation with dieting and thinness leads to excessive weight loss while the individual continues to feel fat and fails to acknowledge that the weight loss or thinness is a problem. Symptoms of anorexia, or anorexia nervosa, include significant weight loss, continuation of weight loss despite thinness, persistent feeling of being fat even after weight loss, exaggerated fear of gaining weight, loss of menstrual periods, preoccup...
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