Disordered eating

This article should be merged with  Binge eating disorder?

Disordered Eating is a newer term coined to describe a wide variety of irregularities in eating behavior. Springing from the term eating disorders, which refers to more acute and classic symptoms of anorexia and bulimia, disordered eating also includes a range of additional problems that people have with eating.

Diagnosis: Where a diagnosed eating disorder encompass a specific sets of symptoms, disordered eating may include individual symptoms, such as merely binging, instead of the binging and purging common to bulimia. As the term disordered eating encompasses so many different situations, people trained to handle patients must deal with a much broader range of situations.

Treatment: Eating disorders are thought to be much more serious than disordered eating. Individual cases of disordered eating however, may involve serious problems with food and body image. Additionally, certain types of disordered eating can include symptoms from both classic cases of anorexia and bulemia, making the disordered eating dangerous as eating disorders. Counselors are now trained to deal with disordered eating including eating disorders. While many times both are handled the same way in therapy, recognizing that many people suffer with problems that don't fit into the scope of eating disorders makes it possible for a larger percent of the population to receive help.

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