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Friends and family are often key to encouraging loved ones with eating and/or body image issues to seek help. Whether they are unaware that there is a problem, they are afraid or ashamed to seek help, or they are ambivalent about giving up their concerning behaviors,...

An eating disorder is a medical diagnosis based on your eating patterns and medical tests on your weight, blood and body mass index (BMI). Food is one of the many mediums through which our emotions and distress can be expressed, so you may have a very difficult...

Residents at Dublin based Lois Bridges receive individualised treatment that is specifically designed for both men and women. Our programs consist of innovative therapies that encourage lasting recovery. At Lois Bridges residential centre, we have a track record of...

Dublin based Lois Bridges provides comprehensive care for women and men who are struggling with eating disorders. Lois Bridges delivers compassionate, comprehensive treatment so that the journey to healing from eating disorders can begin. Treatment for eating...

DURING THE 20th century, a relatively unheard of and very serious form of anxiety began to emerge; this new behaviour is now recognised universally as ‘eating disorders’. The prevalence of eating disorders began to occur rapidly in the late 1960s and they currently...

IF YOU WERE to meet me in person, there are a few things you would notice. I’m very friendly, I am at ease in social situations and I appear as if I am full of confidence. And I am these things. And I’m also not. Many of us have moments when we feel we’re putting on a...

Up to 200,000 people in Ireland - mostly female - are believed to be affected by eating disorders, while an estimated 400 new cases emerge each year. This article lists some ways to support a loved one who has issues around food. The number of people living with one...

Is this you?   Emotions and Behaviour You are worried about someone but they become angry if you try to talk. You don’t know how to approach them. You know there is an eating disorder, but they deny that anything is wrong. They agree that there is a problem but...

Is this you?   Emotions & behaviour of men with eating disorders An obsession with being fit and lean together with a fear of gaining weight. Exercise routines that have gone out of control, feeling anxious and depressed if you miss your routine. Taking...

Binge Eating Disorder vs Basic Overeating, what is the difference? Overeating can be a normal tendency for many individuals, such as having an extra helping at a meal even when already full or eating beyond satiety at a special holiday meal or celebratory occasion....

Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to an unrealistic view of how someone sees their body.  Like eating disorders, it is seen most commonly in women, but many men also suffer from the disorder....