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Category: Eating Disorders
Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Mental Health, and Trauma
What does it mean to navigate through Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)? BDD is a condition that may influence the amount of times a person view themselves in the mirror but almost as if they have on a distorted lens of themselves. By definition, BDD is a condition that may cause distress in an individual when…
Compulsive Eating, Emotions, and Stress
Acute or chronic stress may change an individual’s eating patterns due to psychological and emotional stressors (Cameron, Maguire, & McCormack, 2011). Survivors of sexual trauma may have more psychological and physical stress leading to an increase in food intake that is used as a coping skill. (Connors & Morse, 2006) Binge eating is often thought…
Compulsive Eating (Binge-Eating) Disorder, Mental Health, and Trauma
Binge eating is one disorder that can result to eating food on an ongoing basis and the loss of control of self-discipline and regulation without any form of purging. A deep description of both disorders will lead to ways to support individuals on this journey.. Traumatic exposure is more common for binge eating subtypes of…
Bulimia, Mental Health, and Childhood Trauma
Childhood trauma such as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect are often a common denominator with eating disorders (Utzinger, Haukebo, Simonich, & Wonderlich, 2018). Eating disorders include binge eating disorders, both Bulimia Nervosa and binge eating disorder without vomiting. Interestingly, a history of emotional abuse happens more often for people diagnosed with bulimia…
Anorexia Nervosa and Mental Health: Childhood Trauma
Anorexia Nervosa is a multisystem disease that can lead to medical complications affecting all body systems (Gibson, Workman, & Mehler, 2019). Anorexia Nervosa has one of the highest death rates of all mental health disorders with almost 6% death per decade (Keel & Forney, 2015) and almost are death by suicide (Koutek, Kocourkova, & Dudova,…
Anorexia Eating Disorder, Mental Health, and Trauma
It is extremely rare for the main root of eating disorders to be unuusal eating habits. Eating disorders are often not about food but rather emotional pain residue of trauma or internal discomfort with self. · The cause can be unknown trauma or unresolved trauma. It is important to acknowledge and assess trauma and possible…
Overview of the ABCD’s of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are more prevalent in women although its prevalence continues to increase in men today. Alarmingly, the rate of children and youth being admitted to the hospital for an eating disorder increased by up to 119% in the past decade (Eating Disorders Coalition, Facts About Eating Disorders: What the Research Shows.). There is a…
