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Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are among the most harmful mental disorders. In fact, anorexia is the single most deadly mental illness due to its effects on not only psychological but physical health as well! However, other eating disorders like bulimia, binge eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) can be incredibly impairing as well.
Learn more eating disorders, including their core signs and symptoms, prognosis, and treatment, in this high-yield talk intended for all healthcare providers, including doctors, medical students, psychologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, and more!
Correction: 12:42 The section on binge eating disorder should be updated as follows: "Binge eating disorder is similar in some ways to bulimia, including a similar association with borderline personality disorder. However, the big difference here is that the bingeing episodes are not followed by offsetting purging behavior. This leads to a few clinically important differences. Due to a lack of purging, people with binge eating disorder are often quite overweight (as compared to underweight in anorexia and normal weight in bulimia). Binge eating disorder is also equally prevalent in men and women (versus bulimia which is much more common in women), suggesting that purging as a specific offsetting behavior likely has a large learned or social component. On a happier note, binge eating disorder has a better prognosis compared to bulimia, with 80% of people being in remission at 5 years. Binge eating disorder also has a specific medication treatment that bulimia does not, with a stimulant known as lisdexamfetamine (or Vyvanse) being the first-line option along with psychotherapy."
