Anyone who suffers from an eating disorder is focusing their attention on food, weight and the eating side of things. If it is anorexia, the process of starving; bulimia the binging and the vomiting; binge eating, those uncontrollable sessions.
They all appear to revolve around food and eating, but this is a front. All eating disorders manifest themselves through the subjects relationship with food, but, and this is an important but, the food side of things is a symptom of a deeply unsettling emotional problem.
The relationship with food takes on a life on its own, but in reality this is a silent shout for help.
One of the more difficult aspects of treatment is that a love-hate relationships takes place with food. In other types of addiction one of the steps that has to be taken is to break away from the substance. In eating disorders the relationship with food has to reach a balance but never break away from it. And this makes it a very difficult process.
In the final analysis the treatment has to include the emotional, the physical and the psychological sides of the person.
And the goal, a full remission where all three, not just the food angle, recover their natural balance.

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