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Body Image Multi Media Presentation

The inability to sustain a menstrual cycle that is regular and a weight that is at least minimally normal for one's height and age.

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Repeated episodes of binge eating and a pattern of using unsuitable coping mechanisms to offset the negative effects of eating, particularly weight gain.

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How common is BDD in the following groups?

Almost all patients lack insight, failing to realize that the defects they perceive are minor or nonexistent. Through obsessive grooming, peer comparison, and mirror checking, they regularly try to verify, cover-up, gain confirmation about, or repair the perceived imperfection. Any region of the body might be the source of worry, and most patients are worried about several. Humiliation, embarrassment, and a fear of being rejected are frequently linked to these inclinations. Severe BID, including varying degrees of body dissatisfaction and distress, are present in both the BDD and eating disorder populations. However, BDD differs as patients reported more impairment in their body image than those with eating disorders, including a greater investment in appearance for self-worth and a more negative impact on quality of life. The majority of patients have co-occurring mental problems including depression, an addiction, social phobia, or OCD. While some people seek cosmetic and dermatologic care, these procedures are typically useless and can make BDD worse. CBT helps to address BDD symptoms through perceptual mirror training, habit reversal for skin picking associated with BDD, cognitive strategies that attack fundamental beliefs, and incorporation of behavioral experiments into exposure exercises.

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Recurring episodes of binge eating without the use of unhealthy compensatory weight-management techniques while feeling a subjective loss of control while eating.

Research is still concentrating on how Body Image Disturbance, or BID, is a fundamental diagnostic characteristic of eating disorders generally. Due to its link to body dissatisfaction, diets, and exercise-related thinking, it poses a significant risk for the emergence of these disorders. It is stated that there are two varieties of BN: the purging type, which involves routinely using laxatives, diuretics, or enemas improperly, or self-induced vomiting; and the non-purging form, which involves routinely using fasting or excessive exercise. Binge eating, or the uncontrollable ingestion of an extremely large amount of food in a short length of time, is one of BN's characteristics. In this disorder, binge eating often happens twice weekly. Treatment for BN includes a thorough body image and assessment, which looks at issues like overvaluing weight and form, distorting one's body image, being dissatisfied with one's appearance, and inspecting and avoiding one's body. This entails examining the significance and effects of overvaluing shape and weight as well as the function of social comparisons that emphasize beauty.

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Negative automatic ideas and faulty assumptions produced by people with BN and body dissatisfaction look like:

"I am too heavy" "If I stop purging, I'll gain weight and people will think poorly of me"

The typical eating disorder sufferer overestimates their size more than 73% of persons without an ED do.

Even though they are underweight, people with anorexia have a severe dread of gaining weight or getting obese. They deal with issues like a disturbance in how one experiences their body shape or weight, the unwarranted effect of shape or weight on self-evaluation, or denial of the importance of the current low weight. An individual with anorexia nervosa, often known as AN, is one who places an excessive amount of value on appearance. They will therefore probably base their sense of self-worth on getting to and keeping an extremely low body weight. Feeling obese, disgusted, humiliated, and self-conscious are common symptoms of AN, especially in settings where one is reminded of one's weight or form, when one sees one's reflection, or after consuming particular foods. Checking one's weight or appearance is one type of behavior. Another is avoiding or reducing exposure to one's weight or look. Nutritional rehabilitation, medical management, and psychological therapeutic components are frequently included in AN treatments. When compared to no treatment or non-specific treatments, cognitive-behavioral therapy is most effective. Psychoeducation, cognitive restructuring, imagery, exposure, and behavioral studies are all components of CBT.

62% of women with EDs said they intentionally avoid shape and weight checking, compared to the 92% of non-ED women who check their bodies for symptoms of weight increase or to assess shape.

Body image &amp; Body Dysmorphic Disorder

A concern for a perceived physical flaw; if there is even a tiny physical irregularity, the person's worry is noticeably extreme. 

Eating more quickly than usual, eating past the point of feeling full, eating when not hungry, concealing how much one is eating, and feeling disgusted, depressed, or guilty about one's eating are all characteristics of binge eating episodes. BED is mostly linked to obesity, poor quality of life, low self-esteem, and a higher risk of morbidity and mortality from disease. BED mandates that binge episodes take place on average at least once a week for a minimum of three months. It is believed that such disordered eating behaviors are expressed through body image coping mechanisms. A variety of body avoidance, appearance-correcting, and camouflaging behaviors are used by those with BED to cope. Clinically significant decreases or complete remission of binge eating are seen with specialized therapies including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). Treatment for body image disorders using CBT focuses on recognizing and correcting incorrect beliefs about body type and weight, as well as body exposure strategies that target both the cognitive and behavioral aspects of body disturbance.

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For the purpose of coping with their negative body image, patients with BED in particular adopt the following methods:

57% indicated pinching certain body parts to check for fatness, while 89% said they opposed wearing clothing that would draw attention to their body's shape.