Bulimic forms of anorexia nervosa--case report no.1

The problem remains still controversial whether anorexia nervosa and bulimia are disease entities or only symptom syndromes. In my patient detailed psychiatric examination ruled out schizophrenic process and other psychoses. It confirmed obsessive-compulsive syndrome. The author choosing sertraline as the basic drug in the treatment of the patient, took into account good therapeutic effects of the drug in obsessive-compulsive syndrome, reported by other authors. In the choice of the drug, the author of the paper followed the reports by some authors who obtained after sertraline body weight gain in their patients. Sertraline was evidently better tolerated by patients than tricyclic antidepressants. The cholinolytic effect of sertraline is minimal.