Residential Eating Disorder Treatment | What You Need To Know
An eating disorder is a mental illness that causes people to change their eating habits. People with eating disorders typically either eat too much or too little. Binge eating, purging, and anorexia are all types of eating disorders.
Are There Different Types of Eating Disorders?
There are three main eating disorders: anorexia, binge eating, and bulimia.
Anorexia nervosa is excessive weight loss by self-starvation. People with anorexia often see themselves as overweight even when they are not and are obsessed with losing weight.