Bulimia and Anorexia

Bulimia and Anorexia are two different eating disorders. Often they may seem to share some characteristics and even appear to overlap or one may seem to evolve from the other. However, they are generally separate and distinct.

Bulimia is usually characterised by the sufferer bingeing on food and then later feeling compelled to "purge", normally by inducing vomiting. This is a physically very unpleasant experience, obviously. But sometimes even worse, are the feelings of embarrassment shame and even guilt which accompany this behaviour and the stress of trying to keep it a secret activity.

Anorexia is an obsession with the body and, put at it's simplest, is a phobia of putting on weight. The sufferer has such a fear of putting on weight that they are even happier when their behaviour has reduced their body to skin and bone. They eat very little, in extreme cases, not even enough to survive.

As you may have noticed, I have separated these two "eating disorders" and described one as a "compulsion" and the other as an "obsession", also two different and distinct things. And this is the key to treating these disorders.

Also I have described them in terms of feelings and fears, because that is the disorder, not the behaviour that follows.

Any sufferer of an eating disorder is using food to try to control very unpleasant feelings of fear, anxiety and low self esteem, or self worth.

Hypnoanalysis is the most successful and quickest way known of releasing the cause of these feelings and thus permanently resolving the need to control them. The root cause of this problem is always some bottled up feeling or emotion which is breaking the surface, making you very uncomfortable and driving you to do something to make it better, or control it, if even only for a short while.

This treatment, typically, takes between 6 and 12 sessions to complete resulting in a permanent release from all of the fear, anxiety and resulting behaviours. It is not a "fix", it is a permanent cure. There is no problem to manage or to worry about reoccuring in the future, just a new lease of life and freedom.

Call me now for a chat or even to book a free initial consultation to find out more about this successful therapy.