Eating disorders: how to define anorexia and bulimia?

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Published on : 30/12/2022 – 06:00

Eating disorders refer to anorexia nervosa and bulimia, respectively the refusal to eat and the constant craving for food. © iStock/domoyega

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia – respectively the refusal to eat and the constant craving for food – are eating disorders (ED). Still very taboo, eating disorders mainly affect teenage girls. The health crisis has played an important role in the explosion of these disorders among young people. TCAs can cause serious deficiencies and ultimately threaten the survival of patients, for lack of appropriate treatment.

Anorexia and bulimia: how to define these eating disorders?

• Dr Noël Pommepuy, child psychiatrist, psychiatrist, family therapist. Head of the child and adolescent psychiatry department and vice-president of the Establishment Medical Commission (CME), at Ville-Evrard Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Marne, in Seine-Saint-Denis

► “Anorexia bulimia listening info” is a hotline, provided four days a week, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., by psychologists (Mondays), TCA specialist associations (Tuesdays), doctors (Thursdays) and all specialists, alternately (Fridays) : 0810 037 037 (€0.06 per minute + price of a local call)

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