| A | B |
|---|
| anorexia nervosa | characterized by one's refusal to maintain essential body weight for age & height, with an intense fear of becoming fat |
| binge eating | recurrent eating in a discrete period of time (2 hrs) an amount of food in excess of what another person would eat under similar circumstances, with a lack of control over eating during the episode |
| bulimia nervosa | characterized by periods of significant overeating (binge eating) with repeated self-induced destructive methods to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics, or excessive exercise |
| compensatory methods | inappropriate & risky methods of preventing weight gain, such as purging or induced vomiting & the use of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas |
| purging | evacuation of the digestive tract by means of self-induced vomiting, or by use of excessive diuretics, or laxatives |
| reward contract | privileges are exchanged for increased food intake |
| amenorrhea | absence of mentrual periods |
| exhibitionism | tendency to attract attention to oneself by any means; phsychosexual disorder manifesting by abnormal impulse to expose genitals to a member of opposite sex |
