Anorexia Nervosa Presenting as Morbid Exercising

Chalmers, J. A.; Catalán, José; Day, Alexandra; Fairburn, Christopher G.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(85)91065-7

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“…Excessive exercise has also been termed ''dependent'', 2 ''obligatory'', 3 ''compulsive'', 4 ''abusive'', 5 and ''morbid''. 6 The most popular viewpoint has been that extreme or obsessive exercising is a form of addiction. 7 People with this addiction not only risk doing themselves serious harm physically, but are so dependent on exercise that they will put it before their family, friends, health, and career.…”

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The exercise addiction inventory: a quick and easy screening tool for health practitioners: Table 1

2005

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Background: Exercise addiction is not routinely screened for probably because available instruments take a long time to administer, their scoring may be complicated, and their interpretation is not always obvious. A new psychometric instrument has been developed that is capable of identifying people affected by, or at risk of, exercise addiction: the exercise addiction inventory (EAI). A preliminary report showed the EAI had good reliability and validity. Objectives: To test further the EAI's psychometric properties and show that it would be quick and simple to administer by general practitioners. Methods: A sample of 200 habitual exercisers were given the EAI and two existing exercise addiction scales (obligatory exercise questionnaire; exercise dependence scale). Two weeks later, another sample of 79 exercisers were administered the EAI to determine the test-retest reliability of the questionnaire. Results: The original data from the preliminary report were reanalysed to determine the split half correlation of the EAI. This was found to be 0.84 (Guttman split-half coefficient). A correlation between weekly frequency of exercising and EAI scores was also determined, and it was found that the two variables shared 29% of the variance (r 2 = 0.29). The testretest reliability of the scale was found to be very good (0.85). Conclusions: The EAI is a valid and reliable tool which would be capable of helping general practitioners to quickly and easily identify people affected by, or at risk of, exercise addiction.

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The exercise addiction inventory: a quick and easy screening tool for health practitioners: Table 1

2005

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“…The excessive exercise is regarded as a secondary feature as a means towards losing weight or balancing the intake of 'calories', and occurs to varying degrees in most anorexics. Occasionally the excessive exercise and the subsequent physical complications are the presenting feature of Anorexia Nervosa (Chalmers et al, 1985;Waldstreicher, 1985;Katz, 1986). The exercise may reach a state of dependence but it is still regarded as secondary to the eating disorder.…”

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Exercise Dependence

1987

British Journal of Addiction

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Summary Exercise can become a compulsive behaviour and harmful to an individual. This review proposes diagnostic criteria for ‘exercise dependence’ to facilitate recognition in Sports clinics and further research. The importance of diagnosing exercise dependence lies in the prevention of morbidity and rarely mortality if exercise is continued in the presence of illness or injury. There is insufficient evidence to postulate opioid peptides as a physiological basis of dependence. A distinction is made between a primary form of exercise dependence and that which is secondary to an eating disorder.

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“…Años después se populariza el térmi-no adicción positiva (Glasser, 1976), siendo este constructo desarrollado posteriormente por Sachs y Pargman (1979, 1984. Han sido varias las formas de referirse a este fenómeno, de entre ellas se destacan: adicción positiva (Glasser, 1976), adicción al correr (Glasser, 1976;Sachs y Pargman, 1984), adicción negativa (Morgan, 1979), fanatismo por el fitness (Little, 1979), corredores obligados (Yates, Leehey y Shisslak, 1983), ejercicio mórbido (Chalmers, Catalan, Day y Fairburn, 1985), el ejercicio compulsivo (Hauck y Blumenthal, 1992) o dependencia primaria al ejercicio (De Coverley Veale, 1995). Pierce (1994) consideraba la dependencia al ejercicio como un proceso que compromete al sujeto en la práctica a pesar del malestar generado y los síntomas tras su retirada.…”

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