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Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are characterized by extremes: eating very little to the point of starvation (anorexia nervosa), eating large amounts of food and then purging via vomiting or laxatives (bulimia), and out-of-control eating of enormous amounts of food (binge-eating disorder). Most people suffering from anorexia or bulimia are girls or women, but boys and men can also have these disorders.

People with anorexia and bulimia believe they are overweight even though they are not. They may measure and weigh everything they eat, or exercise obsessively. Often they feel out of control, pressured to be perfect, convinced that they are not worthy of love, and staggeringly isolated and alone. They hide their suffering from others and try to avoid friends and loved ones who express concern or alarm.

In the long-term, these disorders can negatively affect health and physical well-being. Similarly, people with eating disorders can suffer silently on the inside, living below the radar, feeling depressed and anxious, questioning their value as a person. They need contact and love, but don't know where to turn.

Eating disorders can be treated, and therapy can help bring balance to a life once ruled by extremes. Therapy can help stabilize health, and allow the person to begin to understand the powerful emotions that underlie the impulse to control the body. Therapy can also help a family understand the dynamics at home that sustain eating disorders, supporting the person as they learn to relax the eating constraints that once ran their lives.

People with eating disorders can suffer in silence, feel depressed and question their value. Therapy for eating disorders can help bring balance to a life ruled by extremes.

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