Bingeing and purging involves eating much larger amounts than normal (bingeing), then attempting to compensate by removing the food consumed from the body (purging). Types of Bingeing.
Adulthood: Psychosocial Development Changes During Middle Age Is middle age a time of crisis & upheaval? Many personal changes occur during middle age, including: 1. the awareness that one is beginning to grow old. 2. the need to make adjustments in parental roles as children enter adolescence & subsequently adulthood. 3. reaching a plateau in ones career.
In short, this perfect storm of changing ideas and realities was also changing our idea of what (and when) adulthood is. The result is that today, if you tell young adults you need to be married to be an adult, or you need to have kids, they'll look at you as if you're from Mars. To them, adulthood is more subjective. It's more often a feeling, not a thing.