Young people mainly girls engage in strict dieting and excessive exercise. This eating disorder in adolescence is known as:

Eating disorder: It is a mental disorder in which there are disturbances when it comes to eating behavior, which leads to some sort of illness physically. It is categorized into three categories.

• Anorexia Nervosa: It is characterized by the perception in people find themselves overweight. The following are its characteristics and symptoms:
  • People usually eat too less and exercise too much.
  • This disorder is generally found in girls during adolescence.
  • People often check their weight, and find themselves overweight even if they are underweight.
  • Many die out of starvation, while there are cases in which it is found that some die due to suicide.
• Bulimia Nervosa: In this, people generally consume a large amount of food in a single attempt and it happens frequently. To offset this, people vomit, observe fast, and do excessive exercise.
• Binge Eating: It is similar to Bulimia Nervosa in the way that excessive eating takes place, however, there is no scope of compensation to digest the food. As a result, the person suffers from obesity or is overweight.

Hence, we conclude that the above-mentioned eating disorder in adolescence is known as Anorexia Nervosa.

Additional Information

• Developmental disorder: It refers to the severe, chronic disability of an individual that is likely to continue indefinitely. It affects the function of normal life and eliminations of purposeful functioning of cognition and emotions.

• Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis: It is a kind of disorder in which individuals feel compelled to perform uncontrollable repetitive behaviours. In this disorder, individuals originate repeated thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviour.