Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders often occur due to some unresolved emotional issue. People tend to use food as a way to cope with boredom, stress, loneliness or feeling down or frustrated. Over time the person becomes locked into an eating control cycle. The common forms of this are:
Anorexia nervosa
This is characterised by low body weight and a distorted body image. Sufferers may feel that they are overweight when in fact they are underweight, sometimes dangerously so. It is vitally important that the body gets enough nutrients to sustain a healthy body, eating too little for the purpose of body image
is NEVER a good idea.
Sufferers may also engage in excessive exercise in a bid to burn off what they see as fat
, but is in fact a result of a distorted body image. As the body continues to be under nourished, so to is the brain, and can lead to further impaired thinking and irrational behaviour, setting in place a self destructive cycle.
Bulimia and Binge Eating
Bulimia and binge eating share the desire to consume large amounts of food. The essential difference is that a bulimia sufferer will make efforts to compensate for the binge (known as purging). This could include vomiting, fasting, or the use of laxatives or enemas. Both may hide or hoard food and overeat when stressed or upset.
Bulimia is related to emotional issues and feelings of lack of control. Sufferers feel in control of their life by engaging in the (often destructive) control over their eating. They may In time the sufferer finds that they have lost control over their binging and purging cycles. What started as a means of control, is now controlling your life.
The good news in that all eating disorders stemming from an anxiety related issue can be helped with hypnoanalysis. Hypnoanalysis aims to resolve completely and permanently the unconscious anxiety driving the symptom. This can leave the sufferer free from their symptom for life!
Steve Williams BA, MSc, DHP
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