Eating disorders in adolescents and young women with spina bifida

Article Abstract:

The identification of five patients with eating disorders in adolescent and young adult females with spina bifida confirms reports that body dissatisfaction and unhealthy weight control practices are more common among adolescents with a chronic illness than in healthy adolescents. These patients had been encouraged to lose weight to improve their mobility, but gradually came to use weight loss as a way of gaining attention and deflecting attention from problems associated with their spina bifida. It appears that all adolescents with spina bifida should be screened for eating practices, anthropometric measurements, body image worries and self-esteem.

Spina bifida

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Early trauma, dissociation, and late onset in the eating disorders

Article Abstract:

Examination of the reasons of occurrence of eating disorders in middle age by case studies of three middle-aged Caucasian women revealed all three subjects as sufferers of sexual and physical abuse by family members and, among other things, showed them to have severe dissociative behavior. All subjects also had a history of binge eating and morbid obesity and were prone to eating disorders, following medical trauma.

Health aspects, Caucasian race, Whites, Middle aged women

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Anger and core beliefs in the eating disorders

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This article explores the relationship between anger, negative core beliefs,?and eating disorders. The authors, analyzing results from a questionnaire given to women with eating disorders and a healthy control group, conclude eating disordered women had higher levels of anger and anger suppression, with unhealthy core beliefs associated with higher levels of trait anger.

United Kingdom, Measurement, Anger, Values, Values (Philosophy)

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