See also: eating disorder

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eating-disorder (plural eating-disorders)

  1. Rare form of eating disorder.
    • 1981 May 10, Beverly Autorino, “Film explores terrifying ailment”, in TV/Radio & Cable Week, page 6, columns 2–3:
      While in the hospital Casey meets a “supportive” friend, Carol Link (Melanie Mayron), a teen with bulimarexia, an eating-disorder which leads her to alternately gorge herself on food and then force herself to vomit.
    • 2004, Free Associations, numbers 57–60, pages 135 and 169:
      I shall argue that the metaphor of psychic skin and the vicissitudes of that skin can particularly aid understanding some of the disturbances in early mental processes that contribute to the development of an eating-disorder. [] sustaining a notion of containing internal space, something that is often deeply problematic for those with an eating-disorder. [] In illustration and extension of these ideas, I have sought to highlight some of their clinical manifestations in patients with eating-disorders.
    • 2006 August, Christina Görke, “Introduction”, in An Exploratory Study of Advertising’s Role in Young Indian Women’s Desire to Be Fair-Skinned Beauties and Their Consumption of Skin-Lightening Products (University of Leicester, MSc Media and Communications Research, Master Dissertation), GRIN Verlag, published 2014, →ISBN, page 1:
      An impressive body of research can be found on advertising’s contribution to eating-disorders, consumption of alcohol, tobacco, etc. However, no research can be found on advertising’s role in the consumption of skin-lightening products which has become increasingly popular in Asia. Similar to eating-disorders, skin-lightening is an issue concerning body image with potential harmful consequences.
    • 2009, Diego G. Bassani, Cintia V. Padoin, Diane Philipp, Scott Veldhuizen, “Estimating the number of children exposed to parental psychiatric disorders through a national health survey”, in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, volume 3, →PMID:
      Similarly, children of parents with anxiety – [19], substance use – [16,20], and eating-disorders [21-23] are also at higher risk for psychopathology.
    • 2014, Melissa Young-Dorn, How to Find Your Super Awesome Sassy Self! A Modern Woman’s Guide to Living a Less-Stressed Life, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 63:
      For example, I once had a client who overcame an eating-disorder early in her adolescence.