Bulimia Nervosa is a/an ________.

The correct answer is Option (2) → Eating disorder

Option (1) Depressive disorder — Incorrect. Major depressive disorder is a period of depressed mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, with symptoms such as sleep problems and tiredness. A change in body weight can come with it, but its centre is mood, not eating.

Option (2) Eating disorder — Correct. Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. In bulimia nervosa the individual may eat excessive amounts of food, then purge the body by medicines or by vomiting.

Option (3) Conduct disorder — Incorrect. Conduct disorder is a pattern of age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate family expectations, societal norms and the rights of others, such as aggression and theft.

Option (4) Anxiety disorder — Incorrect. Anxiety disorders, such as generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder and phobias, are marked by intense fear and worry, not by a pattern of eating.