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Starving one's self, over exercising

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How is anorexia and bulimia different?

Anorexia is characterized by extremely restircting food / calorie intake and an excess of exercise. Bulimia is characterized by episodes of bingeing and purging.


Which disorder is characterized by refusal to eat?

I think it is called anorexia. You'll have to research it to see if it is the right one.


Anorexia nervous is characterized by self-starvation and excessive loss?

Yes, that is roughly correct. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive exercise done in order to lose weight.


What is the eating disorder characterized by a false per ception of body appearabance?

anorexia nervosa


What are the unique symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa?

Anorexia is uniquely characterized bybthe refusal to eat with a compulsive desire to exercise, all in an irrational fear of gaining weight.


What eating disorder involves self-starvation and a fear of gaining weight?

An eating (and self image) disorder characterized by self-starvation is called, "Anorexia". A person who has anorexia is correctly said to be, "Anoretic', or more commonly, "Anorexic".


Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder typically characterized by?

a pathological fear of weight gainnoi really need the question


What eating disorder is characterized by being at least 15 percent below ones normal weight?

Anorexia nervosa


How is anorexia nerovsa characterized?

Anorexia is characterized as an eating diorder in which a person starves or severly limits food / nutritional intake and excessively works out to lose weight in an extreme form of dieting. It is classified in different cases as an eating disorder, a physical disorder, and a mental disorder / form of a mental instability.


What eating disorder is characterized by being at least 15 percent below one's normal body weight?

Anorexia nervosa


Which eating disorder involves a psycholgical issue characterized by self starvation and yet the individual still believes he or she is fat?

anorexia


What does the word nervosa mean in anorexia nervosa?

The term nervosa in anorexia nervosa refers to a state of nervousness or loss of appetite leading to an eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by an extreme fear of gaining weight and distorted body image, leading to restricted food intake and excessive weight loss.