Eating disorders can develop through a combination of factors, this could be psycological, enviromental and gentic factors.
Eating disorders are serious mental illness, where individuals use the control of food to mange thoughts and feelings.
They present in many different ways. This could be restricting food intake, eating large quanties of food at once, purging behaviours, fasting, exessive exercise or a combination of these behaviours.
Eating disorders are an incredibly complex and difficult illness to treat and require specialist knowledge and experience.
Recovery and change is for anyone, at any stage of the illness, being ready to explore change is the first step.
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