Everywhere we look, we are surrounded by evidence of diet culture. From a mental health perspective, we wanted to examine how this impacts on our self-esteem and our behaviours around food and exercise. What is a diet culture? A diet culture is in...
I regularly treat binge eating disorders and from the experiences that I have had I see a very strong relationship with the disorder and the client’s basic emotional needs. This kind of therapy is quite unusual in treating binge eating disorders. It targets the...
Eating disorders affect millions of people in the UK alone. The people who are suffering from an eating disorder are diverse, from all ages and every different background. But there is likely to be one thing that links all of these different cases, and that is trauma....
Eating disorders can include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder (BED) or eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS). These disorders affect between 1.25 and 3.4 million people in the UK. And additionally, it may surprise you to know that...