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Contemplating Recovery

Are you contemplating recovery? Do you experience a painful fixation on food, your eating habits and your body? Most people who struggle with an eating disorder don’t even know it’s a problem until everything falls apart. Disordered behaviours can be sneaky, subtle,...

TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS

Eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder) are very complex psychiatric conditions with serious complications. By the time people present, it’s usually after a long period during which the enduring pattern of disordered eating...

Family Disturbances in Eating Disorders

Is dysfunctional the new functional? Let’s understand these concepts  Disturbances- refers to the interruption of a peaceful condition/environment and  Dysfunctional -refers to a system that is not operating effectively.  The following roles are a few...

Eating Disorders: A Snap Shot

A teenage girl refusing to put a morsel of food in her mouth, although she is severely emaciated and at death’s door, is the picture we get when we hear the term “eating disorder,” right? Well, that picture represents an Anorexic-type presentation....