Our Psychologists have written a number of articles about eating disorders. Here you will find information, helpful tips as well as comments on current stories in the media all about eating disorders. Most people who suffer from eating disorders have a range of symptoms across the various common types (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating etc) so please don’t feel concerned if your own symptoms don’t seem to match up with a single condition as this is perfectly normal. Please feel free to share your experiences in the comments section of an article. We are currently looking for people to contribute to our blog, so if you have or have had an eating disorder and would like to participate then please visit the Contact Page and let us know.
Our bodies are designed to survive and when we diet it sees this as a threat to this survival and fights back with physiological tactics including increased hunger, preoccupation with food and a decrease in metabolism. This decrease in metabolism means that our body uses the food we give it more efficiently so the weight we lose by dieting will not be equivalent to the energy reduction we make. As a result the more we diet, the more efficient our body will become at adapting to our reduced calorie intake […]...
Binge eating is a reasonably common problem, at the milder end of the continuum it leads to weight gain, low mood and anxiety, at the more severe end it is a symptom of an eating disorder (e.g. Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder or Anorexia Nervosa binge-purge subtype). If you are binge eating between 2-3 times per month then the strategies below should help you to eliminate episodes. If your binge eating presents a more severe problem (i.e. occurring 2 or more times per week), the strategies will help you to […]...
An Eating Disorder (e.g. Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder) is a secretive disorder, for a number of reasons. Firstly because at the root of an eating disorder is the sufferers chronic and enduring sense of inadequacy or low self esteem; they do not feel that they deserve help, support or attention and feel like they are to blame for the situation that they find themselves in. Secondly, the eating disorder focuses a sufferer’s attention on their body, its weight and its shape and leads them to believe […]...
It is often suggested that exposure to overly thin models leads to eating disorders in adolescent girls. However, such a belief not only fundamentally misunderstands the nature of an eating disorder but minimises the seriousness of this often life threatening mental health problem. A desire to be thin and the resulting steps that an individual with an eating disorder undertakes to achieve this (including restricting calorie intake, self induced vomiting, misuse of laxative, excessive exercising) are a symptoms of an eating disorder, not the eating disorder itself. An eating disorder […]...
