Question

What is bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Explain in detail.

Answer 1

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• The main difference between diagnoses is that anorexia nervosa is a syndrome of self-starvation involving significant weight loss of 15 percent or more of ideal body weight, whereas patients with bulimia nervosa are, by definition, at normal weight or above.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Bulimia nervosa

an emotional disorder characterized by a distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by fasting or self-induced vomiting or purging.

Anorexia nervosa

An eating disorder causing people to obsess about weight and what they eat.

Anorexia is characterised by a distorted body image, with an unwarranted fear of being overweight.