Eating disorders are serious and complex mental and physical illnesses. If your loved one has an eating disorder and in an effort to help them, you may find yourself in a power struggle to control their eating behaviors, which in turn may strain your relationship. Because the eating disorder thrives in secrecy, shame, and isolation, [...]
Eating disorders are marked by denial and shame and often create a distrust of others as well as oneself. This makes it challenging to know when it is truly time to enter eating disorder treatment. There are a few tell-tale signs that can indicate the need to consult an eating disorder professional. Is it Time [...]
Research on eating disorder treatments indicates that early intervention in eating disorder behaviors (that is, early identification and treatment of an eating disorder) improves the speed of recovery, reduces symptoms to a greater extent, and improves the likelihood of long-term recovery. For example, when adolescents with anorexia nervosa are given family-based treatment within the first [...]
While psychotherapy is still the first line of treatment for individuals struggling with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), researchers are working to find other treatment avenues that might be successful. One of these avenues is how pharmaceuticals may be helpful in altering the neurological and biological mechanisms behind the disorder and learning the effectiveness of Vyvanse on [...]
Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Eating disorders are devastating mental health conditions that can be hard on both you and your loved ones. If left untreated, eating disorders can cause dangerous medical complications. It’s vital to receive effective eating disorder treatment in order to obtain useful tools such as peer mentoring to [...]
Eating disorder recovery is a challenging journey that is not linear or perfect. For many, the fear that recovery is unattainable for them or that it is not possible at all pushes them back into old disordered eating habits. Although difficult, the healing journey of eating disorder recovery is achievable. Many articles explore recovery through discussions [...]
The perils of eating disorders are more commonly discussed than ever before, and awareness of these mental illnesses has certainly increased. Even so, they continue to harm people at alarming rates and treatment is not as accessible, or utilized, as one might think. So why are so few sufferers seeking eating disorder treatment? In fact, a [...]
Eating disorders and anxiety often occur together. One study found 53% of patients with eating disorders were also diagnosed with anxiety [1]. Another group of researchers concluded that those diagnosed with anxiety by age 10 may be more likely to develop an eating disorder than others [2]. The thoughts, feelings, and sensations associated with an urge [...]
Anorexia Nervosa turns your entire life into chaos. It calls the shots about how you treat yourself and your body as well as how you interact with the world around you. In recovery, we get to take back control, learn our limits in anorexia recovery, recognize the limiting and harmful eating disorder beliefs that have kept [...]
We call it “recovery” because the process of overcoming an eating disorder will help you recover things that you have lost due to the obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors of an eating disorder. But “recovery” can also suggest that you are recovering the person you were before the eating disorder. I don’t think that’s true. [...]
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