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  • About
    • Who Is LaRose
    • Healthgrades Reviews
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  • Services
    • Free Consults
    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Couples
    • LGBTQ
    • Stress
    • Online Therapy
    • Hypnosis
    • Sex Addiction
    • Spirituality & Mental Health
    • Children & Mental Illness
    • Retreats & Time Away
    • Concierge
  • 24 Hour Care
    • Crisis and 911
    • 24/7 Care
    • Schedule Now
    • Client Portal
  • Podcast + Blog
    • Podcast
    • Blogger
  • B2B
    • Professional Development
    • Provider Support
    • Clinical Supervision
    • Private Practice Set Up
    • Onsite School Counseling
    • Onsite Rural Health
  • Resources
    • PsychoBabbleJabble
    • Articles
    • Prices and Fees
    • Insurance Questions
    • Contact & Addresses
    • Medication Referral
    • Other Professionals
    • Public Use Forms
    • Social Media Policy
    • Patient Bill of Rights
    • Privacy Practices

More Disorders & Symptoms

Eating Disorder-Anorexia

Anorexia Nervosa can have a “restricting type” or a “binge/purge type.”

► Refusal to maintain body weight (for age & height) with gains/losses at 85% of what is expected.

► Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming “fat” even though underweight

► Disturbance in the way one body weight/shape is experienced, with undue influence placed on weight/shape, or denial of seriousness of current low body weight

► In postmenarcheal females, amenorrhea, such as the absence of 3 consecutive cycles

Factitious disorders may include psychological signs, physical signs, or the combination of both psychological and physical signs.

► Intentional feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms

► Motivation is to assume the “sick role”

► External incentives for the behavior (financial gain, legal avoidance, etc. as is true with malingering) are absent.

Kurt LaRose

MSW LCSW CHT LICSW
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