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Depression and eating disorders

R C Casper1

  • 1Stanford University, School of Medicine, California 94305-5546, USA.

Depression and Anxiety
|November 11, 1998
PubMed
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Depressive and eating disorders frequently co-occur. While depression is common in eating disorders, shared causes are not strongly supported, especially for anorexia nervosa.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Depressive disorders and eating disorders are complex and heterogeneous conditions.
  • A significant overlap exists between these two disorder categories.
  • Understanding their relationship is crucial for effective treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the intricate relationship between depressive and eating disorders.
  • To review existing literature on clinical, genetic, treatment, and biological aspects of this comorbidity.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of clinical descriptive studies.
  • Analysis of family-genetic studies.
  • Examination of treatment outcome studies.
  • Review of biological research findings.

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Main Results:

  • Depressive symptoms and disorders are prominent in patients with eating disorders.
  • Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and personality disorders also play roles in eating disorder development.
  • Evidence for a shared etiology is weak for anorexia nervosa and suggestive for bulimia nervosa.
  • Starvation effects complicate the diagnosis of depression in eating disorders.

Conclusions:

  • A spectrum of depressive disorders can be associated with eating disorders.
  • Bulimia nervosa and bulimic anorexia nervosa show higher depression rates than restricting anorexia nervosa.
  • Each eating disorder likely possesses unique pathophysiology and psychopathology.
  • Further research is needed to disentangle causal relationships and effects of starvation.