The term eating disorder/eating distress refers to a broad variety of unbalanced eating rituals and disturbance in eating behaviour, an irregularity between a person and their eating. Each disorder can be understood as a coping strategy, a solution to underlying issue, not a problem. The term eating disorder refers to a set of complex, successive conditions typified by psychological and emotional suffering, acute disorders in eating and the physical repercussions of it; the most common of these being anorexia, bulimia and over eating.
