Adult
Adult Eating Disorder Therapy

People with anorexia nervosa often restrict their food and calorie intake by avoiding or eating minimal quantities of specific foods. Many people who suffer from anorexia may have an unhealthy relationship with their weight, intensely focusing on losing weight or preventing weight gain. They may think they are overweight, but could actually be dangerously underweight.

Symptoms of anorexia nervosa:

• Extremely restricted eating
• Excessive and intense exercise
• Distorted self- or body image
• Extreme thinness
• Intense fear of gaining weight
• Denial of severe low body weight

Anorexia nervosa also has two subtypes: restrictive and binge-purge. People with restrictive anorexia nervosa severely limit the type and amount of food they eat. Those with binge-purge anorexia nervosa also restrict their food intake, but they can have binge-eating and purging episodes when they eat large amounts of food in a short time, then vomit or use laxatives to get rid of the food.

Bulimia nervosa is a condition where people have binge-eating episodes followed by vomiting, using diuretics or laxatives, exercising excessively, fasting, or doing a combination of these behaviors to avoid weight gain. People with bulimia nervosa may be overweight or maintain an average weight.

Symptoms of bulimia nervosa:

• Severe dehydration
• Sore and chronically inflamed throat
• Electrolyte imbalance
• Swollen salivary glands in the jaw and neck area

People with a binge-eating disorder may lose control and have recurring excessive eating periods. They don’t follow their binging with purging, fasting, or excessive exercise. Instead, they may feel uncomfortably full and struggle with shame, guilt, regret, or depression. Those with a binge-eating disorder can be overweight or obese.

Symptoms of binge-eating disorder:

• Eating large food portions in a short amount of time
• Eating when full or not hungry
• Rapidly eating in a short time
• Eating until uncomfortably full
• Feeling ashamed, guilty, and distressed about eating

Binge-eating treatment can help you create a healthy relationship with food. You can attend binge-eating therapy in Greenwich, Connecticut, or Manhattan, New York, at Greenwich Psychology Group.