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Eating disorder awareness

Penelope Ling BA DHP SFBT CBT SFBTSUP - Supervisor
by Penelope Ling BA DHP SFBT CBT SFBTSUP - Supervisor, listed hypnotherapist
24th February, 2015
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It's a common assumption that eating disorders only happen to young women with confidence issues. The truth is the number of types of problems extend beyond anorexia and bulimia to food phobias, body dysmorphia and excess exercising.

Behaviours associated with eating disorders are:

  • Going days without eating
  • Diverting attention away from the eating, such as eating a small amount then insisting others try the meal.
  • Obsessive calorie counting
  • Purging
  • Obsessive weighing
  • Obsessive exercise
  • Isolation
  • Self-harming
  • Extreme fussiness around food
  • Food phobias
  • Bingeing on foods that feel good, such as chocolate
  • Narcissism 

This is not age or gender specific. There are many men who become obsessive with exercise - weight training for example, and this can lead to isolation, obsessive calorie counting and narcissism. Sometimes triggered by embarrassment of their physical appearance they end up going beyond the norm. This is sometimes diagnosed as body dysmorphia syndrome - a version of OCD, where people become obsessed with a part of their body.

Much like over eating, these problems often arise out of trying to control some aspect of their life. Often real needs are not being met but the problem can start to make them worse, for example becoming isolated because they feel overwhelmed in social situations. 

In solution focused hypnotherapy, the emphasis is on what the client wants to achieve, and with a bit of CBT thrown in it can help people reduce the anxiety it creates, and focus on what they can do for themselves. Clients often seek this therapy route because they just need a helping hand in keeping focused, in finding solutions which suit them and their situation, and to change habits, behaviours and fears around food.

Reducing the fear of trying new foods can change the life of people, and set them on a much healthier path through life.

This week is national eating disorder awareness week, so if you know someone who needs some help, solution focused hypnotherapy could be the answer.

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Penelope Ling BA DHP SFBT CBT SFBTSUP - Supervisor

About Penny Ling

Penny Ling is an experienced solution focused hypnotherapist specialising in fears and phobias and many anxiety related problems in between. She works in a GP practice in Oxford and clinics in Abingdon, Faringdon and Cirencester. She is a supervisor for the AfSFH and the NCH, and was writer and editor of Hypnotherapy Today between 2010 to 2015.… Read more

Located in Abingdon and Oxford.

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