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There is a consensus that the mainstay of treating eating disorders is the outpatient setting. The NICE guidelines recommend cognitive behavior therapy for eating disorders (CBT-ED) as an evidence-based treatment for all eating disorders. CBT-E (E=’ enhanced’) is one major example of the specialized cognitive-behavioral therapies for eating disorders covered by the umbrella term ‘CBT-ED.’ CBT-E has been originally developed to address eating disorder psychopathology (rather than the DSM diagnosis) of adult outpatients, but later it was also adapted for adolescents. The current status of CBT-E and other evidence-based treatments If one focuses on controlled studies in which CBT-E was…
There is a consensus that the mainstay of treating eating disorders is the outpatient setting. The NICE guidelines recommend cognitive behavior therapy for eating disorders (CBT-ED) as an evidence-based treatment for all eating disorders. CBT-E (E=’ enhanced’) is one major example of the specialized cognitive-behavioral therapies for eating disorders covered by the umbrella term ‘CBT-ED.’ CBT-E has been originally developed to address eating disorder psychopathology (rather than the DSM diagnosis) of adult outpatients, but later it was also adapted for adolescents. The current status of CBT-E and other evidence-based treatments If one focuses on controlled studies in which CBT-E was…
By David Pittam & Charlie JonesBBC News1 January 2022Image source, Charlotte FairbrotherImage caption, Otto’s mother Charlotte says he would often gag and refused to eat things from the age of six monthsCrisps, dry crackers and plain pasta may not be the most exciting foods but they are often the staples relied upon by children with a little-known eating disorder.Nine-year-old Otto from Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, has the condition ARFID, which stands for avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, meaning he avoids many different foods.Otto says he would like to try new things, but often feels scared.”It sometimes feels like food is inedible,”…
One of the only drawbacks to online treatment was that patients could more easily engage with their eating disorder behaviors, Kalotihos said.“If we were in person, ideally that wouldn’t have happened because we would be all together,” Kalotihos said. “But we’ll never know, because that’s not the reality that we had at the time.”Concerns that online treatment wouldn’t be sufficient for some of her patients led Marissa Sappho, LCSW, the founder of Aurora Center NYC, to start meeting patients face-to-face in July 2020 — long before other mental health practitioners did.“I saw my patients struggling tremendously and in pain, in…
For some people, no matter how much they try to eat healthy, when intense emotions surface, overcoming food cravings seems impossible. We reach for the comfort foods that we hope will make us feel better in the short term, but afterwards often end up feeling down in the dumps. That feeling of shame can be overwhelming — particularly in a diet-driven society where maintaining a healthy relationship with food is difficult, especially if it’s used as a coping mechanism. But why do some people turn to food when they’re stressed while others don’t? Are our brains wired differently, or does it…
Introduction Eating disorders are a group of chronic mental disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating, which are characterized by severe disturbances in eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions and negatively affect individuals’ physical and mental health. Compared with the prevalence rates of eating disorders in the United States, which ranges from 0.28 to 0.85% across different studies (Udo and Grilo, 2018), the prevalence rate of eating disorders in China is less than 0.1% (Huang et al., 2019). However, subclinical conditions such as emotional eating are quite common among Chinese people, affecting 55.4% of girls and 48.4%…
All they give you is juice? NO THANKS! Now that it’s the day after Christmas you will no doubt be starting to get trolled by instagram, television, facebook, your friends… everyone who wants to start a 2022 weight loss challenge. It’s so difficult to avoid the allure of these juice fasts, quick starts, all keto all the time fads…. There are so many reasons that diets are so seductive. They take away our choice- we don’t have to make decisions- we just drink the juice. They make us feel proactive, as though we are doing something for our health and…
26 December 2021Image caption, Richard Osman is the creator and co-presenter of Pointless, and also now a best-selling authorRichard Osman, the TV personality and author, has spoken about how hard it is to “work your way out of” an eating disorder. The 51-year-old told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs he had therapy in his 30s to address his food issues. The Pointless star’s best-selling debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, saw him named author of the year at the 2021 British Book Awards.He said food addiction doesn’t have the “doomed glamour” of drugs or alcohol.”But if an alcoholic came…
The Pointless presenter Richard Osman has revealed he suffers from a lifelong food addiction, but is endeavouring to destigmatise the shame surrounding the affliction.Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Osman told about the “difficult journey” his addictive behaviour had led him on.He said: “There hasn’t been a day of my life since the age of nine where I haven’t thought about problems with food and how it affects me.“And it will be with me for the rest of my life, I know that. I’m either controlling it or not controlling it at any given time, and these days…
BBCRichard Osman is the creator and co-presenter of Pointless, and also now a best-selling authorRichard Osman, the TV personality and author, has spoken about how hard it is to “work your way out of” an eating disorder. The 51-year-old told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs he had therapy in his 30s to address his food issues. The Pointless star’s best-selling debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, saw him named author of the year at the 2021 British Book Awards.He said food addiction doesn’t have the “doomed glamour” of drugs or alcohol.”But if an alcoholic came to my house they…