Eating Disorder Treatment
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Eating disorders can have a serious impact on your life. But thankfully, eating disorder treatments can help you recover. Get the help you deserve. Call 1-800-231-2950. The treatments at Lakeview Health are designed to help those suffering from eating disorder symptoms and get them back into a healthy lifestyle. For immediate assistance, call 1-800-231-2950 now. Our staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to take your call. For your peace of mind and personal privacy, all calls are kept confidential.
Eating Disorder Symptoms
An eating disorder is a psychological condition that manifests itself in unhealthy eating habits or consumption of food. Eating disorders have serious emotional and physical effects. However, with proper eating disorder treatment, recovery is possible.
If you or a loved one is exhibiting behavior consistent with eating disorder symptoms that consist of not eating enough, eating too much in a short period of time or drastic measures like vomiting, fasting or overuse of diuretics or laxatives, then an eating disorder may be present. It is vital to seek professional eating disorder help as soon as possible as eating disorders can be physically harmful and ultimately, deadly.
Additionally, when an individual's eating habits impact their social activities and / or consumes their thoughts, it is possible that an eating disorder has developed.
Types of Eating Disorders and Symptoms
There are three types of eating disorders that affect millions of Americans every year, 90 percent of which are adolescent girls and young women. The types of eating disorders and their symptoms are:
Bulimia Nervosa is characterized by periods of binge eating followed by self-induced vomiting, use of laxatives or diuretics, enemas and other methods of food elimination. Bulimia patients are typically extremely self-conscious of their body image and will sometimes excessively exercise or refuse to eat anything at all.
Anorexia Nervosa is a devastating illness where the afflicted experience an overwhelming fear of becoming fat or gaining weight. Anorexia patients usually restrict their intake of food, but some patients binge and purge similar to bulimia patients. Anorexia is one of the deadliest eating disorders and needs to be treated immediately.
Binge eating is when a person eats a tremendous amount of food in a relatively short time span. Additional symptoms include eating until uncomfortably full, eating alone out of embarrassment, feelings of disgust or guilt after eating and oftentimes depression.
Eating Disorder Symptoms and Alcohol or Drug Addiction
In many cases, before someone seeks professional eating disorder treatments, they will turn to alcohol or drugs as a way of self-medicating themselves. This is an extremely dangerous thing to do. More times than not, the person suffering and exhibiting eating disorder symptoms will develop alcoholism or an addiction to the narcotic. This is what we call dual diagnosis.
There are special drug or alcohol rehabs available that specialize in dual diagnosis treatments but one thing is certain about all of them - the addiction must be managed before the eating disorder treatment can take place. For this reason, you should look for a rehab facility that includes its own detox program, inpatient rehabilitation and dual diagnosis treatment philosophy.
If you are looking for an effective dual diagnosis program specializing in treatments for eating disorders, call Lakeview Health Systems now at 1-800-231-2950. All calls are completely confidential and our staff is available to assist you 24 hours a day.
