Eating Disorders

Are you or someone you love at the mercy of an eating disorder?

If so, it's important to get help as soon as possible!

Warning signs include:

• preoccupation with food and weight
• anxiety about meals
• secretive about food and weight
• unusual eating habits like eating alone or hoarding and stealing food
• counting calories and fat grams
• compulsive exercise
• loss of menses
• constipation
• cold intolerance
• delayed puberty
• frequent excuses to go to the bathroom after meals
• weight fluctuation

The good news is we can help teach you the skills you need to manage your life without resorting to unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors. We work with all ages and have male and female therapists for your comfort.

Learn to love yourself from the inside out. Increase your self-esteem, develop the relationships you want, and learn to be happy and healthy at any size.

Facts about eating disorders (ED):

• 8.5 million women suffer ED
• 1.5 million men suffer ED
• the rate of death for women with ED is 12 times higher than other women of similar ages
• about 1,000 women die each year from ED due to malnutrition, heart attack and suicide
• 30-50% of ED patients suffered depression and/or anxiety prior to the ED
• about 1 in 3 ED patients suffered obsessive compulsive symptoms prior to the ED
• 89% of girls have dieted by age 17
• 15% of young women have disordered eating
• 42% of girls in grades 1-3 want to lose weight
• 45% of boys and girls in grades 3-6 want to be thinner
• 51% of 9 and 10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they are dieting
• 81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat
• 9% of nine year olds have vomited to lose weight

Eating Disorders stem from a variety of causes including:

• dieting to look better
• major life transitions like puberty, entering high school or college or major losses or trauma
• family problems
• social difficulties like teasing, criticism or ridicule
  
• fear of failure or a need to be perfect (often related to dieting)
• traumatic events like sexual and physical abuse
• other psychiatric illnesses like depression, anxiety, OCD and ADHD
  
• personality traits like low self-esteem, difficulty with change, fear of feeling out of control

Call (443) 602-6515 or email info@thebodyimagecenter.com now for your FREE 15 minute initial consultation.