Eating Disorders & Codependency

Eating Disorders

I worked for several years with people who lived with eating disorders & have found that therapists in private practice can be an important
complement to public healthcare. I´ve worked with both bulimia & anorexia. I´m certain that collaboration with doctors is essential in the treatment of those with these difficulties & in quickly challenging destructive behavior.
It´s also important to talk to the person in front of you, about what´s important to them which might be something quite different.
That person is much more than their eating disorder!
One can view eating disorders as kind of addiction, to food & to self control.

Codependency

Those who live near to someone with an addiction, focused on food, drugs or other things can be living in hell.

They have to cope with caring for their addict & trying to live a meaningful life at the same time.

When that doesn´t work, when your own life disappears, it can be called codependency.

When that happens counselling can be a way to take your life back, during or after a relationship with an addict.”

The Twelve Steps

I am well versed in the 12 steps used by Alcoholics Anonymous & and other groups. I have often seen how that programme´s focus on a positive framing of taking support from a group & a higher power has helped many. I have listened to many step 5 admissions.

Evidence

“Evidence” is a word one often hears in discussion of psychotherapeutic methods. It means trying to establish scientifically the effectiveness of different methods.

Nowadays many methods can show convincing evidence but a good relationship to one´s therapist has always been judged as central in successful counselling.