Emotional Eating is, for many Women, a coping mechanism for dealing with difficult and uncomfortable feelings or emotions in their everyday lives. It is in fact an Eating Disorder but I find that those with this issue are rarely given the support...
It’s a challenge to separate binge eating from over-eating, but they are not the same thing. Binge eating disorder is probably on one of the least understood of the eating disorders and it’s a tricky one! A binge can be identified by...
Anorexia is often misunderstood. The drive to protect this 'state' of being by the sufferer often causes confusion and disbelief in others. It’s a destructive, devastating and addictive process that only those who have experienced it can fully...
Fat people not only carry their own weight, they also hold the blame and the responsibility for their own obesity. People around them are likely to give extreme importance to slim figures shown on television and criticise the fat ones. Fat people...
A person who is wasting away because they're afraid of weight gain is in great distress. Having a compulsion to eat and eat is a terrifying loss of control. Here's a look into some common eating disorders and how they affect sufferers: Anorexia...
Binge eating disorder (BED) is now a recognised condition that is believed to affect more people than other eating disorders, probably at least 2% of all adults although this figure is hard to establish as it is believed the majority of people do...
While eating disorders may begin with preoccupations with food and weight, they are most often about much more than food.Eating disorders are complex conditions that arise from a combination of long-standing behavioural, emotional, psychological,...
This is a brief summary, from my point of view as a psychotherapist specialising in treating people with eating disorders, of what can happen in the first few weeks of therapy with a person seeking to begin recovery. People come to my practice...
Over the past decade I have become more and more aware of the increase in obesity but also Anorexia and Bulimia. These psychological disorders have a massive negative impact on the person experiencing the condition and a knock on effect to both ...
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