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Symptoms of eating disorders |
Anorexia |
Bulimia |
Binge eating |
| Excessive weight loss in a short period of time | ✓ | ||
| Continuing the diet although excessively thin body | ✓ | ||
| Dissatisfaction with appearance, idea that body is fat, even when well below normal weight | ✓ | ||
| Missing a monthly period | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Unusual interest in food and development of strange eating rituals | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Covert eating | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Obsession with exercise | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Severe depression | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eating a large amount of food | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Vomiting, use of drugs to induce vomiting, bowel movements and enuresis | ✓ | ||
| Binge eating but no visible weight gain | ✓ | ||
| Disappearing in the bathroom for a long time | ✓ | ||
| Drug or alcohol abuse | ✓ | ✓ |