Eating Disorders.

Like some other issues (eg anger, depression, anxiety, addiction), eating disorders are secondary issues, not primary root causes. This is exciting because it means that when the primary cause (a wrong assumption or belief) is traced, faced and replaced through therapy, true change will occur. An eating disorder is often a survival kit or defence coping mechanism, designed to ‘protect’ the person suffering from experiencing something, normally an unbearable feeling.

There is most definitely hope for the eating disorder sufferer, but the road ahead will be hard. Often there are identity and self-worth issues that need resolving. Also, the person suffering from an eating disorder needs to learn to see the disorder as their enemy, something that is trying to do everything possible to destroy them, rather than a friend or comforter.

As a survival kit, an eating disorder is designed to bring relief from the pain the sufferer feels. However, the release from the pain is only temporary, which is why the sufferer needs to repeat the actions over and over again. Once the sufferer is able to confront their hurts, pains and unbearable feelings, and renounce them, their mind can become transformed. As this link shows, once the assumptions are changed, everything above it changes too.