Eating Disorders
How you may recognise it:
How you may recognise it:
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Eating disorders are not primarily about food, but can be seen as a way of coping with emotional distress or as a symptom of underlying issues. For the person with the eating disorder, controlling the food and the body is their way of relieving distress and achieving some degree of control over their life.
Eating disorders can affect anyone, male or female. With appropriate help and support, people can and do recover.
Eating disorders are characterised by a variety of disordered eating behaviours such as:
An eating disorder can be very destructive, both physically and emotionally, and people can get trapped in the destructive cycle of the eating disorder without knowing how to cope with it.
How you may recognise it:
Eating disorders are not primarily about food, but can be seen as a way of coping with emotional distress or as a symptom of underlying issues. For the person with the eating disorder, controlling the food and the body is their way of relieving distress and achieving some degree of control over their life.
Eating disorders can affect anyone, male or female. With appropriate help and support, people can and do recover.
Eating disorders are characterised by a variety of disordered eating behaviours such as:
An eating disorder can be very destructive, both physically and emotionally, and people can get trapped in the destructive cycle of the eating disorder without knowing how to cope with it.