With so much attention paid to severe cases of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, it’s important to have awareness of even the most subtle symptoms of disordered eating and how they might be precursors to a diagnosable eating disorder.
, a residential eating disorder treatment facility, says that analyzing the “frequency, intensity and duration of what the behaviors are” can be considered a cheat sheet to understanding the process.
Bulimia nervosa is when individuals binge and then purge. After a binge, she says, “they feel that loss of control and feel like they eat too much at that time, and then it’s followed by a purge, so something to get the calories consumed during the binge out of the body. The typical one that most people will recognize is the self-induced vomiting, but it can be many things.
“People certainly still assume that it’s a food issue,” Lydecker says. She points to the assumption that a person’s motivation behind an eating disorder might be vanity, having only to do with their appearance and then letting it overtake their lives — when in fact it’s a mental health disorder.“Eating disorders often carry a greater sort of medical risk than some of the other mental health conditions that are out there. Certainly, that’s not true of all of them.
Poirier recalls believing "I was doing something good for myself" when engaging in harmful patterns. She often needed "somebody outside of me to let me know that something was going on with me," although she admittedly made it harder by becoming more deceitful. This is where it’s helpful to remember that eating disorders are mental health disorders. And while there are different levels of care depending on the severity of the issue, psychotherapy is by and large the most effective — including therapy to prevent disordered eating from becoming a full-blown eating disorder.
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