Eating behavior disorders
Eating disorders are serious medical conditions involving severe and often persistent disturbances in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions that impair psychosocial functioning. Types of eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorder, pica and rumination disorder.
Eating disorders involve a disordered relationship with food and/or body shape and weight that drives compulsive behaviors such as restrictive eating, avoiding certain foods, binge eating, self-induced vomiting/laxative misuse, or excessive exercise. These behaviors can become driven in ways that appear similar to an addiction.
American Psychiatric Association. (2023). What are Eating Disorders?. Retrieved from: https://bit.ly/429qSTM