Anorexia nervosa, or anorexia, as it is usually referred to, is a common eating disorder that, in extreme circumstances, can lead to death.
Going over the past in an attempt to understand how the anorexia began, or searching for deep hidden meanings seems to us to be a very long-winded, and often fruitless approach.
Working Directly With The Patterns Of Anorexia Nervosa
By contrast, our approach is almost directly opposite to many counselors and psychotherapists in that we work directly with the anorexia patterns, literally teaching you how to think differently, to help you to build flexibility and choice into your thoughts, feelings and behaviour's in the present, because, basically, this is all you need.
Hypnotherapy is also used to associate resources from times in your life when you have felt confident, relaxed and resourceful (even if you haven't felt these things for a while), to those times when you would have engaged in anorexia behaviour.
We find that on average we can help people with up to ten hours of NLP and hypnotherapy, and on many occasions we have seen people who have suffered for years and got them to stop doing it in just one or two sessions. It is our job to help you to change the cycles of behaviour, help you to feel better about yourself as you are, help you to move away from bulimia, and consequently help you to move, once again, to a healthier and happier way of living.
Break The Patterns Of Anorexia Nervosa For Good
Anorexia has much in common with bulimia. It manifests itself in patterns of behaviour created by the sufferer specifically to meet their own expectations of their self-image. These patterns are self-perpetuating, and need to be broken in order to stop anorexia.
In order to diagnose anorexia, three things must be happening:
- The sufferer must be significantly underweight
- This must be the result of their own efforts
- The sufferer must be extremely concerned about their weight and / or shape, but rather than worrying about being underweight, they will usually be terrified of gaining weight and becoming fat
Although anorexia is most common in teenage girls and young women, that is not to say that men do not suffer.
Anyone suffering with anorexia will typically avoid foods they believe to be fattening, whether or not this belief is accurate. They may alternate between fasting and binging – although an anorexic binge is often subjective entirely to the sufferer. For example, they may eat two or three biscuits and consider themselves to have overeaten.
These extremes of anorexic behaviour are normally preceded by a period of distress or particularly low self-esteem. They are usually followed by feelings of shame and guilt, leading to still lower self-esteem, and thus the circle of self-destructive behaviour continues.
Hypnotherapy and NLP can be used successfully to get you out of the self-destructive patterns of Anorexia Nervosa so please do not hesitate to call us.
