P0350 - Feeders: Eating or sexual disorder?

Abstract

Introduction:

The feeders are usually people who encourage others (the "gainer") to increase their weight by the pleasure of seeing eat or see "fat" or, more often, because of the relationship of domination, control and dependency that this holds. Although still little studied, there are references to “feeding” as a fetishism, disturbance of eating, or even as a form of physical and psychological violence with special features.

Target, Material and Methods:

Presentation of a clinical case (emerged in the consultation of general psychiatry) of a patient for 43 years, married, overweighted (because of imposed feeding of her husband) that presents depressive episodes. Hold a literature review based on the search Pubmed / Medline on the concepts of feeders and gainers and pharmacological approaches and psicotherapy.

Conclusions:

There are numerous cases described in both sexes, weighing above normal and that fail to reach the ideal weight for food imposition of other persons, most often, someone close to the patient (spouse, parents, etc.). There is a need to distinguish this from the "fat lovers”, that as a sexual link. The imposition food can lead to an addiction control and the patient and the feeder often requires the psychiatry assistance in a systemic perspective.