Food, Body Image, Perfectionism

Abstract

Introduction

The eating disorder (ED) are anorexia nervosa, bulimia and unspecified eating disorder behavior according to ICD-10. Currently the ED have become a social and health problem of the first kind that require specialized and interdisciplinary approach to the response of such disorders.

The growing demand observed in different assistive devices is associated with increased incidence of eating disorders in recent decades.

Case description

She is a woman of 23 years old, single. It is the small two brothers. He lives with his parents and brother 25 years. It is fourth-year student of law. It is derived from primary care by their GP after significant weight loss by decreasing the intake of foods high in calories and low mood. It is defined as a very responsible person, controller and is always looking for perfection in every activity performed. He began to try to lose weight about a year that relates to start time of stress ago. She speaks that had many exams and wanted to get top marks in all. With good adherence to psychotherapy and monitoring by nurses. Aspects of body image as well as traits such as perfectionism work.

Conclusions

These clinical conditions are characterized by their complexity and diversity symptomatology, which involves a significant interference in their functioning in different vital areas and clinically significant distress. After the psychotherapeutic approach, a significant reduction in the clinic that she had at the beginning and an improvement in mood was observed.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.