Guided Self-Help and Psychotherapy Show Advantage in Fight Against Binge Eating
January 7th, 2010
When faced with challenges that involve both mental and physical health difficulties, clients may not know where to turn for help and treatment. Often, a collaboration of different types of services can prove most beneficial, but there are certainly some medical concerns for which therapy can have a remarkably positive impact. Binge eating has recently been identified as one such concern; while psychotherapy and self-help have been shown to be effective for binge eating issues in the past, a new study based at Rutgers University has shown that in the long-term, these types of treatments are significantly more effective than behavioral weight loss programs alone.
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Most people tend to eat unnecessarily when they are involved in some other activity like watching tv or using the computer. Also, I have observed that most often it is the people who do not exercise that get into binge eating.These are the people who are not actuall;y very conscious of their health and this may very well have to do with their mental setup and it would need psychotherapy more than a weight loss program to really help such people.
Yes, it is true that the situation becomes very problematic when there is a mental and physical combinational disorder. Most often, people tend to head for one of the solutions,not knowing that the problem cannot be solved if the other part is not solved too… this results in no full solution being yielded even after treatment… guidance should be given to such cases at all kinds of health facilities,one of which they will surely go to.
As a recovering binge eater I know that there were times where I would have literally eaten myself into the grave if not for the sanity and assurance that I could succeed and triumph over this that I got from my counselor. She has been a real blessing to me, and believe me I have been through several different programs, and while they started me on the right path, she has been the one who has been able to keep me there. She gave me the insight and the will to see what was really going on with me, what I was trying to cover with my eating and how to get out from behind the ma sk and the facade of that life that I had been living.
Most binge eaters are people who want to stop the habit but are just not able to.a little bit of guidance and understanding from someone,preferably a professional,will do them a world of good.
The key though is finding someone you trust and can relate to who can best help you.
Stuffing down your feelings with food is not a great way to live but I see it happening everyday in my line of work. Many programs are fabulous, but until you find that one person whom you can trust and who can help you break through many of those issues that plague you and cause you to exhibit this kind of behavior there will be no real lasting and sustainable changes. I see so many make progress in the programs but then when they come out they are right back off hte proverbial wagon again. Sometimes I see what looks like harder habits to break when it comes to eating disorders than any alcoholic or drug addict has faced. When so much of this deals with hidden self esteem and worth issues those seem like they are so much harder to overcome because it is hard to make those feelings go away, and to change the way that you may have always looked at yourself.
It’s always the right mixture of program and talk that will usually show those with eating disorders the greatest path to success. One thing might not work alone but when used together they can really do the trick.
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