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Ultimate Eating Disorder Treatment

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:25:55 +0000

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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The Treatment that can Cure Compulsive Eating

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:53:51 +0000

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“Oh, she’s a big girl, she likes her food”.

The reality is, I don’t “like” food. I hate food. It’s transformed me into someone totally defined by the layers of tissue that leak over the top of my jeans. But I also love food. I worship it. I crave it. Every waking minute is shaped by what I am eating and what I will be eating in the near future.

The thing is, you can’t simply give up food. It’s not like being an alcoholic. You’d pass away. I try to eat healthy foods but as soon as that first piece of fruit passes my lips it’s like a switch has been flicked and abruptly I’m bingeing on whatever I can lay my hands on.

I binge unthinkingly and indiscriminately, filling a void that isn’t in my stomach. I don’t know why I can’t stop.

I see people gawking at me on the streets, judging me. Fat is greedy. Fat is lazy. Fat people are second-class citizens. If they could live a day inside my skin, preoccupied with consumption, a sanctuary where I can find comfort and even fleeting seconds of joy in a life which is otherwise thoroughly depressing, they might grasp that I’m every bit as deserving of sympathy as an anorexic.

Food is my best friend and whilst my most important relationship in life is with food, I have no energy left to give to anyone, or anything else. I used to love painting once. Not now. I can’t rouse the passion I used to feel because with every passing second I’m obsessed with where my next mouthful’s going to come from.

My GP has offered me antidepressants, as if an false, chemical feeling of contentment is going to distract me from my constant cycle of binge-eating and isolation.

I want to change my mind. I know other people eat normally. They aren’t driven mad with thoughts about food every moment of every day. I want to listen to my tummy and know when it’s advising me I’m hungry. I have forgotten how that feels – intuition.

That’s why I’m going to Mark Newey at Winning Minds. His unique neural recoding treatment can liberate me of the shackles of my addiction and the person I have become. It can remind me of the person I honestly am and give me the independence I want and deserve.

Log onto www.winningminds.co.uk/eating-disorders

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