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Eating Disorders

An eating disorder is when a person has an unhealthy relationship with food, which can take over their life and make them ill. It commonly starts in young people aged 13 to 17 years old. An eating disorder diagnosis is based on eating patterns, which include tests on weight, blood factors, and BMI.

Someone with an eating disorder may find their behaviour towards eating changes. For example, they may worry a lot about their weight and shape, make sudden major changes to their diet, avoid social situations that involve food and/or make themselves vomit after meals. They may experience fainting or feel cold or dizzy, which are all signs of starvation.


Signs

There are many signs of an eating disorder, examples include:

Anorexia Nervosa:

Signs and symptoms may include:

  • Food fixation: constantly thinking about food, counting calories a lot.
  • Low self-esteem: constantly feeling you are never good enough.
  • Food avoidance: Due to a need for control, feel losing weight is not enough, reducing food intake.
  • Secretive: Hiding food or lying about how much you have eaten.
  • Anxious: Increase in anxiety around mealtimes.

Bulimia Nervosa:

Signs and Symptoms may include:

  • A repeated cycle of binge eating or eating large amounts of food in a short period of time, then purging themselves by vomiting, fasting, exercising too much, or using laxatives.
  • Feeling a loss of control over how much they eat, then feeling ashamed for overreacting, and very fearful.
  • Low-self-esteem: basing their self-esteem on body shape and weight.

Binge-eating disorder:

Signs and Symptoms may include:

  • Low self-esteem: feeling emptiness, shame or that they’re never good enough.
  • Poor self-regulation: they can’t stop eating, may eat large amounts all at once.
  • Comfort eating: they may not think about eating or eat as a coping mechanism.
  • Secretive: hiding or lying about how much they have eaten.
  • Weight gain: because of binge-eating.
  • Poor health: They may feel sick a lot, breathless or having a high burst of energy then suddenly feeling very tired.

OFSED:

This means ‘other specified feeding or eating disorder’ and means they don’t have all the typical symptoms of one of the types above. 


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