Question

What are the four main criteria necessary for the diagnosis of anorexia?

Answer 1

•Restriction of food intake leading to weight loss or a failure to gain weight

•Have a distorted view of themselves

•Fear of becoming fat or of gaining weight

•Binge-Eating; person regularly engages in binge eating and purging behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting and/or the misuse of laxatives

Answer 2

Not according to the DSM IV. I was just diagnosed today.

Weighing 85% or less of an average healthy body weight for your age and height.

Has a need for perfection and/or viewing his/her body as overweight when underweight.

Restricts calories to less than 800 a day, feels awful about themselves when broken.

A fear of gaining weight and/or being fat and/or being deemed less than perfect.

There are two types. Purging type, and non-purging type.
Purging- binge and/OR purge, less than 2 times a week though. (Or else they would be Bulimic)
Non-purging-They only restrict, no 'screw-ups' or vomiting to feel better.

Answer 3

thanks guys