Eating Disorders
... Although few of those who wish they were thinner suffer from of a true psychiatric eating disorders. The number of individuals who have one of the three major forms of eating disorders - anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and overeating- has risen dramatically in recent decades. The most commonly known eating disorder is anorexia nervosa, or simply anorexia. ... Another major eating disorder found among the same category is bulimia nervosa (bulimia). ... They do this by inducing themselves to vomit, abuse laxatives or starve themselves in between their eating episodes. ... Overeating is another eating disorder. Unlike the other two – anorexia and bulimia – overeating has to do with eating to comfort themselves.