A woman eats cookies, cake, ice cream, and almost anything else that is sweet. at some point during her binge, she takes a huge dose of a laxative, so she will "empty out&q…

Question

A woman eats cookies, cake, ice cream, and almost anything else that is sweet. at some point during her binge, she takes a huge dose of a laxative, so she will "empty out" the food. her taking the laxative, and the assumptions underlying why she does it, would lead to a diagnosis of:

Answer 1

Binging (eating as much food as she wants) then purging it (via laxative/throwing up) would lead lead to a diagnosis of bulimia nervosa.