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Eating disorders - Eating problems - Bulimia - Anorexia - Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Cognitive therapy for eating disorders in Wolverhampton

All about Eating Problems and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food that causes someone to change their eating habits and behaviour.

A person with an eating disorder may focus excessively on their weight and shape, leading them to make unhealthy choices about food with damaging results to their health.

Types of eating disorders

Eating disorders include a range of conditions that can affect someone physically, psychologically (mentally) and socially (their ability to interact with others). The most common eating disorders are:

Anorexia nervosa, when someone tries to keep their weight as low as possible, for example by starving themselves or exercising excessively

Bulimia, when someone tries to control their weight by binge eating and then deliberately being sick or using laxatives (medication to help empty their bowels)

Binge eating, when someone feels compelled to over-eat (Oral Compulsion)

Causes of eating disorders

Eating disorders are often blamed on the social pressure to be thin, as young people in particular feel they should look a certain way.

However, the causes are usually more complex.

There may be some biological (Genetic) or predisposing (influencing) factors, combined with an experience that may provoke the disorder, plus other factors that encourage the condition to continue.

Risk factors that can make someone more likely to have an eating disorder include:

having a family history of eating disorders, depression or substance misuse

being criticised for their eating habits, body shape or weight

being overly concerned with being slim, particularly if combined with pressure to be slim from society or for a job (for example ballet dancers, models or athletes)

certain characteristics, for example, having an obsessive personality, an anxiety disorder, low self-esteem or being a perfectionist

particular experiences, such as sexual or emotional abuse or the death of someone special

difficult relationships with family members or friends

stressful situations, for example problems at work, school or university

How common are eating disorders?

Around 1 in 250 women and 1 in 2,000 men will experience anorexia nervosa at some point. The condition usually develops around the age of 16 or 17.

Bulimia is around five times more common than anorexia nervosa and 90% of people with bulimia are female. It usually develops around the age of 18 or 19.

Binge eating usually affects males and females equally and usually appears later in life, between the ages of 30 and 40. Due to the difficulty of precisely defining binge eating, it is not clear how widespread the condition is.

Binge Eating responds well to a course of Gastric Band Hypnosis as this course utilises Cognitive Therapy to re-train the bingeing habit

Outlook

If it is not treated, an eating disorder can have a negative impact on someone’s job or schoolwork, and can disrupt relationships with family members and friends. The physical effects of an eating disorder can sometimes be fatal.

Treatment for eating disorders is available, although recovering from an eating disorder can take a long time. It is important for the person affected to want to get better, and the support of family and friends is invaluable.

Treatment usually involves monitoring a person’s physical health while helping them to deal with the underlying psychological causes.

This may involve:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): therapy that focuses on changing how someone thinks about a situation, which in turn will affect how they feel and also act

Social Psychotherapy: a talking therapy that focuses on relationship-based issues, not specifically practised here at our Clinic

Psychodynamic Therapy: counselling that focuses on how a person’s personality and life experiences influence their current thoughts, feelings, relationships and behaviour, at the Wolverhampton Clinic this is what we call the THRIVE PROGRAMME

Analytical Therapy: Therapy which aims to help the sufferer to resolve emotional experiences, predominantly from the past, that may have contributed to the Eating Disorder presenting in the HERE and NOW

Treatments, Hypnotherapy and Cognitive Therapy for Eating Disorders

Treatment for Eating Disorders involves talking treatments, or commonly a combination of Hypnotherapy and Cognitive Therapy.

Analytical Hypnotherapy such as Pure Hypnoanalysis has shown to be particularly helpful in uncovering the root cause of our tendency to develop Eating Disorders in adult life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and our own THRIVE Programme course allow you to find more effective ways of thinking and feeling to help you to cope much more effectively with the symptoms and problems associated with Eating Disorders.

Contact us to arrange a FREE initial consultation to discuss your Symptoms, worries or concerns, or fill out our Enquiry form and we’ll get back to you.

Wolverhampton Hypnotherapy strongly advise you to consult your GP before you consult us for help with your Eating Disorder

Eating disorders - Eating problems - Bulimia - Anorexia

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