Clinical Hypnotherapy For Eating Disorders Melbourne - Create Better Relationships With Yourself & Food!

Clinical Hypnotherapy for eating disorders focuses on helping you create healthy eating behaviours in Melbourne. In addition to binge-eating disorder, other common eating disorders exist like Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Additionally, there are some cases where people are fixated on eating healthy food, also known as Orthorexia Nervosa.

If you are suffering from any of these eating disorders. With clinical hypnotherapy we can help you understand your eating habits and create better relationships with food. By tapping into your subconscious mind, we can help you stop the self-sabotaging behaviours, limiting and obsessive beliefs so you can start living a more healthy lifestyle.

Anorexia

Eating disorders like anorexia can be classified as a mental health condition that demonstrates an unhealthy attitudes toward body image and relationship with food. Interestingly, people suffering with Anorexia also struggle with mental illnesses like generalised anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. People with Anorexia Nervosa are often characterised by low weight, restricting foods and body dysmorphia. They also have an intense phobia of being overweight, even though they are in fact underweight. In response to this fear, they will demonstrate compensatory behaviour like over-excessive exercising, purging and laxative use for weight management. 

If this medical condition is not managed it could lead to an array of issues including; sleep disorders, infertility, hypokalaemia, chronic fatigue, low self-esteem and more obsessive behaviours.

Bulimia 

Bulimia on the other hand is demonstrated through binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviour like purging and fasting due to their fixation and focus on body weight and body shape. Similar to Anorexia, Bulimia is associated with anxiety, depression, bi-polar disorder, and borderline personality disorder. One of the major differences here is that these individuals tend to be normal weight. And due to the lack of food intake control from the binge eating, in an effort to control their weight gain, they will take on water-fasting, over-exercise and even take diuretics and stimulants, 

If untreated similar symptoms will be evident in bulimic individuals, they include: sleep disorders, compulsive disorders, self-harming or suicidal tendencies, hypotension, low self-esteem, 

Eating disorder or disordered eating?

There is a difference between a pattern of disordered eating and a diagnosed eating disorder. This is highly dependent on your obsessive behavioural patterns toward eating and perhaps your personal goals like weight loss or body image. Keep in mind, the distinction between eating disorder and disordered eating is not obvious, so time and understanding is required to fully capitulate what is occurring. Here are some things to consider to see what category you may be under.

Things to consider for disordered eating

Do you:

• Eat for reasons other than nourishment or hunger

• partake in chronic dieting (avoid major food groups)?

• skip meals to manage or restrict your calorie intake?

• have certain fears or phobias with foods?

• exhibit lack of control, compensating or obsessive behaviours like selective eating, restricting, fixating or over-exercising?

What about eating disorders?

Things to consider:

• Have you been clinically diagnosed?

• Do you exhibit extreme changes in weight?

• Are there obsessive thoughts associated with body dysmorphia?

• Do you use purging behaviours like vomiting or use laxitives?

• Do you suffer from symptoms of anxiety or depression?

• Are you the type that avoids social occasions that involve eating

If you said yes to any of the above, get in touch with us today. Clinical hypnotherapy is a form of therapy that can help you understand the deeper issues behind your disordered eating or eating disorders are present in your life.