Addressing Eating Disorders with Clients

All eating disorders involve food, but they are really addictive behaviors that help people cope with stress and low self-esteem. You can encourage your clients with eating disorders to get professional help.

"She told me she had been trying to lose weight for years, and that her dieting efforts had come to dominate her life," you tell your coworker. "She writes down everything she eats, figures out how many calories she has consumed and then tries to expend that many calories with exercise. She says all she thinks about is food: what to eat next or how to avoid overeating. And she weighs herself at least five times a day. I think she might be depressed. She said she doesn't have energy for anything except exercise. She just dropped out of school - she was taking classes at the community college. She asked me what she should do, but I wasn't sure what to say."

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