Eating Disorders

How you may recognise it:

  • Binge eating
  • Making excuses not to eat
  • Being underweight
  • Body & mind starved
  • Trying to be perfect
  • Making yourself sick
  • Feeling guilty about eating
  • refusal to eat enough
  • Feeling worthless
  • Excessive thinking & talking about food
  • Hoarding food

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Eating Disorders

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:

  • Self-starvation – by fasting and/or food restriction
  • Purging – by self-induced vomiting, over-exercising or laxative abuse
  • Bingeing – by consuming quantities of food beyond what the body needs to satisfy hunger

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.

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Eating Disorders

How you may recognise it:

Eating Disorders

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:

  • Self-starvation – by fasting and/or food restriction
  • Purging – by self-induced vomiting, over-exercising or laxative abuse
  • Bingeing – by consuming quantities of food beyond what the body needs to satisfy hunger

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.

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