What characterises eating disorders?

Posted on March 18th, 2008 in Food guide by Work

Apart from the characteristics described above, there are other fairly common features which are often present. Some are more likely to be recognised by friends rather than the person with the problem.preoccupation with thoughts of food so that diet and food become the central focus of one’s life a reliance on behaviour associated with food to deal with difficult emotions, stresses and tasks a desire for control over at least one aspect of one’s life perfectionism low self esteem from failing to meet expectations, which is then reinforced by the behaviour associated with the eating disorder, resulting in more self-disgust, shame and guilt, leading to lowered self-esteem distorted thinking - e.g. when I am thin I will be able to cope with .. secondary disorders caused by the behaviour - eg dental and digestive system damage, depression more women than men are affected sometimes, difficulty in adapting to being adult and to being sexual.

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