Things You Must Know About Eating Disorders
For individuals that suffer from an obsessive preoccupation with body image or weight may be experiencing a common disorder. Eating disorders come in a variety of forms including restriction of food, binging/ purging and binging with depression. What ever the category one falls under, all eating disorders can be damaging to ones health and potentially fatal if not treated. While anorexia and bulimia maybe the easiest to diagnosis, compulsive overeating might be easier to hide. A person that suffers from this disorder tends to restrict their food intake when in the presence of others and then secretly binge to relieve stress. An awful feeling of shame and depression follows this binging. This person may also place their self worth in the number on the scale.
