Rogers Memorial
Hospital
West Allis, WI
Residential eating
disorders treatment for
ages twelve and up;
Separate specialized
units for teen girls,
women and males.
800-767-4411
Aurora Sheboygan
Clinic:
Mental Health Services
Professional therapists
with a wide range of
experience and
expertise in issues of
personal and family
well-being.
920-459-1494
Lakeside Clinic
Dr. Darlene Mech treats
mood and anxiety
disorders, eating
problems, women’s
issues (i.e. self-esteem,
assertiveness), and
marital/couple therapy.
920-451-314
Eating Concerns: A
Self- Assessment
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Family-Youth Works
Different therapists with
varying specialties
including alcohol and drug
abuse, addictions, anger
management, anxiety,
depression, eating
disorders, grief and more.
920-803-8180
  • Perfectionism (if it makes my
    outside okay, then maybe
    everything else I’m scared
    about will be okay)
  • Anger
  • Feeling controlled by others
  • Loneliness
  • Inability to feel feelings/
    bottling them up
  • Alcohol/drug use/abuse
  • Anxiety/panic attacks
Associated
Psychological Health
Services (APHS)
Outpatient psychotherapy,
therapy and counseling
920-457-9192
Soure: http://www.uwec.edu/Counsel/pubs/eatdisorders.htm
Signs and Symptoms of Eating Disorders
BULIMIA NERVOSA
Physiological
  • Person may be under-, over-, or normal weight
  • Swollen glands, puffiness in the cheeks, or
    broken vessels under the eyes
  • Sore throat
  • Fatigue and muscle ache
  • Unexplained tooth decay
  • Frequent weight fluctuations
  • Electrolyte imbalance which can lead to
    irregular heartbeat, and in some cases,
    cardiac arrest.
Behavioral
  • Secretive eating (missing food)
  • Avoidance of restaurants, planned meals or
    social events if food is present
  • Self-disgust when too much has been eaten
  • Bathroom visits after meals
  • The use of diet pills
  • Rigid and harsh exercise regimes
  • Fear of being fat, regardless of weight
  • Bingeing that may alternate with fasting
  • Preoccupation / constant talk about food or
    weight
  • Vomiting and laxative use
  • Shoplifting (sometimes food or laxatives)
Attitude Shifts
  • Mood shifts including depression, sadness,
    guilt, and self-hate
  • Severe self-criticism
  • The need for approval
  • Self-worth determined by weight
  • Feeling out of control
ANOREXIA NERVOSA
Physiological
  • Weight Loss-Often in a short period of time. At least
    15% of original weight
  • Cessation of menstruation
  • Paleness
  • Complaints of feeling cold / low body temperature
  • Dizziness and fainting spells / low blood pressure
  • Bone mineral loss, leading to osteoporosis
  • Irregular heart beat which can lead to cardiac arrest
  • Loss of muscle and body fat
  • Hair Loss
  • Dry skin
Behavioral
  • Restricted eating, sever diets, fasting,
    “vegetarianism”
  • Odd food rituals, food combinations
  • Avoidance of social situations where food may be
    present
  • Compulsive exercise
  • Dressing in layers to hide weight loss, or keep warm
  • Bingeing (may be secretive or infrequent)
  • Distortion of body image (seeing self as fat even
    when emaciated)
  • Intense Fear of becoming fat, regardless of low
    weight
  • Use of laxatives, enemas, or diuretics
  • Interest in cooking and feeding others
Attitude Shifts
  • Mood shifts / depression / anxiety
  • Perfectionistic attitude
  • Insecurities about capabilities regardless of actual
    performance
  • Self-worth is determined by food intake
  • Social isolation
BINGE EATING DISORDER
Physiological
  • Weight-related hypertension or fatigue
  • Weight gain
  • High cholesterol
  • Diabetes
  • Heart Disease
Behavioral
  • Bingeing
  • Restriction of activities because of
    embarrassment about weight
Behavioral (cont.)
  • Going from one diet to the next
  • Eating small amounts in public while
    maintaining a high weight
Attitude Shifts
  • Feeling about self based on weight
    and control of eating
  • Fantasizing about being thin
  • Depression
  • Guilt / shame
Source: From Surviving an Eating Disorder. Siegel. M. et al (1988). Harper and Row and from American Anorexia
Bulimia Association, Facts on Eating Disorders.


Off-Campus
Community Resources
 A Short List of Salient Warning Signs for Eating Disorders
1. Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, and dieting, to the extent that
 it consistently intrudes on conversations and interferes with other activities.
2. Excessive, rigid, exercise regimen – despite weather, fatigue, illness, or injury.
3. Withdrawal from, or avoidance of, numerous activities because of weight
  and shape concerns.
4. Expressions of anxiety about being fat which do not diminish when weight is lost.
5. Evidence of self-induced (often secretive) vomiting, such as:
6. Evidence (e.g., wrappers, advertisements, coupons) of use of laxatives, diuretics,
  purgatives, enemas, or emetics.
7. Evidence of binge-eating including hoarding and/or stealing food, or consumption of
  huge amounts of food inconsistent with the person’s weight.
8. Alternating periods of severely restrictive dieting and overeating; these fluctuations
  may be accompanied by dramatic weight fluctuation of 10 pounds or more.
9. Inexplicable problems with menstruation and/or fertility.
10. Extreme concern about appearance as a defining feature of self-esteem, often
   accompanied by dichotomous, perfectionist thinking (e.g., either I am “thin and
   good” or “gross and bad”)
11. Paleness and complaints of lightheadedness, weakness, fatigue or disequilibrium
   not accounted for by other medical problems.
Source: Michael Levine, Ph.D. Presented at the 13th National NEDO Conference, Columbus, Ohio,
October 3, 1994; http://www.twu.edu/o-sl/counseling/SelfHelp002.html
Mirror-Mirror.org
Some factors that may lead to the development of an eating disorder: