Young patients who starve themselves risk bradycardia, anemia, bone loss—and even death. Yet few patients receive proper care, experts say. She’s starving but not hungry and skeletally thin but says ...

a distorted body image an irrational fear of weight gain or being overweight a fixation on controlling weight and body size People with anorexia often use extreme measures to maintain or lose their ...

A recent article published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry by an international group of expert clinicians and researchers offers one of the clearest and most ethically grounded ...

Atypical anorexia mirrors anorexia with restrictive eating behaviors and psychological distress, yet even after weight loss from unhealthy behaviors, people with atypical anorexia maintain a BMI in or ...

Tens of millions of adults and teens in the U.S. are affected by a wide range of mental health disorders. The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health notes that some of the most common ones include ...

Before modern medicine, unexplained women’s behaviors and illnesses were diagnosed as hysteria. 1 Symptoms of hysteria included, but weren’t limited to, fever and physical pain, as well as behaviors ...