Established therapies tend to tackle one side of the numerous causes which lead to eating disorders, but are not all-encompassing.

CBT

Cognitive behavioural therapy advises the client to take one day at a time and ”get by with” their issue – With guidelines to avert their detrimental behaviour. This tackles on the symptoms of the eating disorder, but not the root cause.

Counselling

Psychotherapy or counselling takes the reverse method and tries to tackle all the emotional issues which might be at the core of the eating disorder, by asking the sufferer to assess their life and go over distressing past events.

Because the focus of counselling is on “counting your worries”, it can even have the consequence that the client becomes even further depressed as a consequence and their eating disorder deepens.

The NHS

In the experience of many sufferers, (including Tasha at Winning Minds), the NHS will either fail to properly diagnose an eating disorder  (especially bulimia, because sufferers tend to be regular weight) or, if they do recognise it, they will prescribe one of the treatments above, which tend to prove unhelpful, for the reasons stated.

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NHS Weight Charts and Eating Disorders

NHS weight charts, which are used to ascertain whether a patient has a healthy “BMI”, tend to allow for a patient to be extremely underweight by any other standard and yet still be deemed “healthy”. Equally, several slim and healthy clients have been reckoned to be “obese” by the spurious weight criteria used.

Not all anorexics weight 5 stone and, as stated, bulimics can regularly be within a “healthy” weight spectrum. At this point in time, it is the experience of many eating disorder patients that they are only taken seriously by the NHS if they fall into the “underweight” grouping on their weight charts, and it is not at all obvious what these charts are based on.

At Winning Minds we concentrate on adapting your mind-set. That’s why our unique Neural Recoding method might have been invented as the perfect eating disorder treatment.

Visit www.winningminds.co.uk/eating-disorders/

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