Talk:Anorexia

UCSF Work Plan

Work Plan Timeline

Due Date, Assignment

12/12 3PM decide the topic of the Wiki Editing : Anorexia Nervosa

12/12 3PM Read the article and identify info know to be missing

12/12 3PM Start looking into resources

12/16 Add the info missing from the entire article with appropriate citations

12/17 finish up adding info with missing info and appropriate citations

12/17 Insert the article into hemingwayapp.com to identify where grammatical/spelling errors lay, where confusion may lie in article. Appropriately fix

12/19 Review peer edits and revise appropriately Jfriskey (talk) 16:50, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jfriskey,

I'll be conducting a brief peer review of your contributions so far. First of all great work on the article so far!! I'm impressed by all the sections you've contributed to and think you've done a wonderful job overall.

Intro

I think all the info you added into this section was very relevant and you did a good job of expanding an already large section. The only thing I would recommend changing is that some terms like "body dysmorphia" and "purging" don't have links to the associated wiki articles.

Symptoms

Again, awesome job basically adding the entire perceptual symptoms paragraph. I think the examples you provided are great. The only thing I would recommend changing is adding some citations to the altered body schemas section and some of the behavioral symptoms.

Comorbidity and Psychological

Very important additions with respect to the origins of anorexia here and links to PTSD. Only thing I would recommend changing is updating source 111. It appears to link to an unrelated article.

Diagnosis

Good job including discussion of BMI here and referencing the DSM5. Only thing I would recommend changing is maybe modifying or expanding the "failing to account for body compositions" to help briefly explain why this is the case for those who might be new to BMI.

Investigations

I think you captured a lot of relevant info in the physical exam section and the gender differences with respect to male anorexia was important and interesting to read. I would recommend adding some more citations to the physical exam section. For the gender differences, I would suggest maybe rewording some of the comparisons to female anorexia. I feel like removing those phrases and just saying something like "males are more prone to..." flows better. WRabbit52 (talk) 08:16, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Spelling error in image of article

I am relatively new to editing on Wikipedia so apologies if this is the wrong place to post this, but I noticed a spelling error in image 3/5 "Genetic correlations of anorexia with psychiatric and metabolic traits" where under "Psychiatric Traits" what I believe was meant to be the word schizophrenia is instead spelt "squizophrenia".

I have basically no experience with image editing so I thought i should raise this issue here. DarraghMoose (talk) 00:41, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out, the image is unfortunately a jpg so it can't be edited directly. Nsophiay (talk) 04:07, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Ah okok, thanks. Is there anything else I should do in the meantime or is this insignificant enough to leave for now? DarraghMoose (talk) 20:36, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I added it to my to-do list but in the meantime you can just leave it. Nsophiay (talk) 22:07, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Nsophiay If you fix this picture, please notice that obsessive also has a spelling error ("obsesive"). Lova Falk (talk) 08:03, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

I've recreated the image as an SVG and fixed the two typos (squizophrenia -> schizophrenia, obsesive -> obsessive). Could you guys (DarraghMoose—Lova Falk) please take a look and let me know if I should make any changes before we replace the original image? Thanks! Nsophiay (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Great job!! Wow! Everything looks fine to me. Like Lova Falk (talk) 05:26, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback! I've replaced the image in the article.  Done Nsophiay (talk) 22:32, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Alternate wording - Perceptual symptoms

@Lova Falk @Æ's old account wasn't working

Regarding the recent edits to the sentence:

Unawareness or denial of symptoms (anosognosia)

Would you guys agree to the following rewording?

Unawareness or denial of severity of condition (anosognosia)

Basically what I want to get across is that anorexics are not necessarily unaware that they're unwell, they just think their condition/behaviours/symptoms are "not that bad." So it's not so much a denial of symptoms, as an inability to accurately perceive the severity of their case. Open to other suggestions. Nsophiay (talk) 01:09, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

What do the reliable sources say? Zenomonoz (talk) 03:49, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

The linked source (Gaudiani's book) uses the "sick enough" terminology that was in the original wording, but I understand the other editors' point that we should prefer more clinical terms in this context. Nsophiay (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, go ahead. I'm fine with that rewording. Æ's old account wasn't working (talk) 06:42, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Very good! Thank you for discussing this. Lova Falk (talk) 06:52, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Issues in Medication section

> Administration of olanzapine has been shown to result in a modest but statistically significant increase in body weight of anorexia nervosa patients. Other types of medication that can be used to treat Anorexia Nervosa are Prozac and Zyprexa. Prozac is a type of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor which can be used to maintain a healthy weight in patients once they reach a healthy weight while Zyprexa is used to calm obsessive thinking and increase weight gain in patients

Issues with this section:

- Olanzapine and Zyprexa (brand name) are actually the same, so "Other types of medication" isn't strictly right

- Spelling/case inconsistencies: olanzapine (should be upper-case), anorexia nervosa / Anorexia Nervosa

- Repetition ("maintain a healthy weight in patients once they reach a healthy weight")

- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor -> should be abbreviated with link ~2025-40779-52 (talk) 19:36, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Updated the Medication section to reflect these changes. Nsophiay (talk) 03:25, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Sentence coherence, word choice, and consistency throughout the article

I think this article has a large number of ways in which its coherency and general phrasing of language can be improved (and, well, actually on all the other articles for eating disorders)... I've slowly been making edits paragraph by paragraph, but it's taking a while. It'd be nice to get some collaboration going on so we can see better phrasing and understanding throughout the article - especially expansion on misinterpretation of the disorder by the general public and how this changed over time.

But, eh, I'll probably end up doing all this by myself over the next couple months or so individually if no one else steps up to help. Spirit of Wikipedia, will you come forward? Burgermachine74 (talk) 10:26, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 20 July 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Clear consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 09:47, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

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• Anorexia nervosa → Anorexia
• Bulimia nervosa → Bulimia

– Move per WP:COMMONNAME by a wide margin. It is a similar naming situation to if polio was entitled "poliomyelitis" - sometimes the full medical name is not necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:11, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

• Support as common names. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:52, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per nom & WP:COMMONNAME Accesscrawl (talk) 15:44, 20 July 2026 (UTC)
• Strong support per COMMONNAME.--Ortizesp (talk) 22:30, 21 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per nom as common names Dinitrify (talk) 11:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
• Support per WP:COMMONNAME and the fact that the current titles are a WP:SURPRISE. Steel1943 (talk) 15:54, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.