By Juliet Hollingsworth
During eating disorders week it is important to raise awareness of and destigmatise eating disorders. The way you eat can be considered disorderly if it interferes with your everyday life. The ‘beat eating disorders’ website claim that 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder with the most common being;
- Anorexia
- Bulimia
- Binge eating disorder
However the way you eat does not have to have a label to make it an interference in your life. I see clients that have an incredibly healthy diet and eating rhythm all of the time other than on the drive home from work, for example, when they stop daily to buy a chocolate bar (and feel that this is out of their control). I see people that do not binge, snack or eat anything overly unhealthy but cannot leave food on their plate and over eat at every meal because of this. I also see people that regularly ‘treat’ themselves with food. Along with those that eat when they feel stress, anger, sadness, happiness etc. I also work with people that stop eating when they feel these emotions and others that find it difficult to eat regardless of emotion.
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