Eating disorders, also called eating disorders or eating behavior (TCA), denote serious disturbances in eating behavior. The behavior is considered “abnormal” because it is different from usual eating practices but above all because it has negative repercussions on the physical and mental health of the individual. ACTs affect many more women than men, and often starts in adolescence or early adulthood.

The most well-known eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia, but there are others. Like any mental health disorder, eating disorders are difficult to identify and categorize. The most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-V, published in 2014, proposes a revision of the definition and diagnostic criteria of eating disorders.

For example, binge eating, which is characterized by compulsively eating a disproportionate amount of food, is now recognized as a separate entity.

We currently distinguish, according to the DSM-V:

• nervous anorexia (restrictive type or associated with overeating);
• bulimia nervosa;
• binge eating disorder;
• selective feeding;
• pica (ingestion of inedible substances);
• merycism (phenomenon of “rumination”, that is to say regurgitation and remastication);
• other TCA, specified or not.

In Europe, another classification is also used, the ICD-10. TCA are classified in the behavioral syndromes:

• Anorexia nervosa ;
• Atypical anorexia nervosa;
• Bulimia;
• Atypical bulimia;
• Overeating associated with other physiological disturbances;
• Vomiting associated with other psychological disturbances;
• Other eating disorders.

The classification of the DSM-V being the most recent, we will use it in this sheet.