Eating Disorders Eating disorders are devastating and harmful behavioral patterns that occur with in people for numerous reasons. The three types of eating disorders I will be discussing include the three most common of the disorders: anorexia, bulimia, and compulsive over eating (known as binge eating). Though the disorders take physical damage on the body, they are not in fact physical illnesses. You cannot “catch” and eating disorder. Rather, they are mental issues that develop more frequently within females but do affect the male population somewhat as well. Anorexia is characterized by extrem