Eating Disorders Are On The Rise, May 23, 2024

Eating disorders are on the rise given all the stress that our young adults are dealing with especially post-COVID. So many of our youth are fearful of growing up because they do not see a world that is built to help them grow as inflation is through the roof, social agendas are confusing them even before they are old enough to care about such issues, and the government has demonstrated its incompetence.

We older folks realize that the world has gone through many challenges over the centuries. It is up to us to help the youth gain the ability to see beyond their fears and help them heal and grow up.

I offer services to help those with anorexia and bulimia to get past merely “managing symptoms” because this is no way to live. Certainly not for a lifetime, which is what the conventionally trained mental health providers maintain is the only possibility.

I offer services to help those with anorexia and bulimia to put their eating disorders in their past working one-on-one with them over the internet to keep them from the competitive nature that these patients have with one another to demonstrate that they can be the best at being ill.

The methods used allow the patient to get to the ‘foundational cause’ of the development of the eating disorder so they can let it go. The focus is not merely on letting go of the symptoms that are the eating disorder, but more importantly, to help the patient figure out their ‘compelling future,’ a future that is so compelling that there is finally a reason to get healthy. This is the lynchpin of the treatment, one that the conventional mental health programs never address and then we wonder why these programs have about a 5% success rate.

The other difference between my program and those of the conventional treatment approaches is understanding that these patients are full of ‘self-loathing,’ the phrase every single one of my anorexic and bulimic clients uses to describe how they feel about themselves.

So, the first thing that needs to be addressed is to help these patients understand that they didn’t come into the world loathing themselves. It was something they learned, so it is something they can unlearn while learning how to love and respect themselves, which becomes the foundation of their being able to care enough about themselves to make the changes necessary in thoughts and behaviors to move on in life. These changes need to move from the self-harming thoughts and behaviors to the life-giving thoughts and behaviors. However, one will never get their patient to make these changes using the prefrontal cortex of their patient’s brain where reasoning, rationalization, and judgment are made keeping the patient stuck where they are.

One needs to approach these changes in the patient’s amygdala where the emotions reside and in the hippocampus where the memories are stored. Hypnotic techniques are the way to get the job done. But you need someone who understands psychology and physiology well enough to apply these techniques correctly to bring out the best in the client without harming them from a lack of knowledge.

I have 30 years of experience working with mentally ill patients having come to hypnotism from the world of conventional mental health learning how to best help these patients from an interactive point of view yet realized that much of the treatment went contrary to what these patients require:

They do not need to be medicated in most cases.

They do not need to be in in-patient or out-patient treatment programs where what they eat or don’t eat is the primary approach.

Where they are often placed in 12 Step programs which only solidify the idea that these patients will always have these problems and worse put in 12 step programs for issues they do not have.

Where they are rarely helped to figure out their self-identity.

Where many of their rights are away for the sake of their protection. These patients need their autonomy to be built up, not taken away from them to grow and heal.

If you know anyone who is fighting these issues and is at a healthy weight and ready to heal, please connect with me because there is no reason for these patients to feel hopeless that they will always have to live like this. I have 20 years of clients who have overcome these issues so it is indeed possible. You just need someone who knows how to help the patient navigate through the healing process to get them healed and onto living a contented and fulfilled life. Because these patients are some of the most creative people out there we need them to be productive adding to our communities with their great gifts.

Resource for how Eating Disorder Treatment Centers Fail Patients:

Vinchenzo, C., Lawrence, V., McCombie, C. (2022). Patient perspectives on premature termina-

tion of eating disorder treatment: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis. Journal of

Eating Disorders, 10 (1), 1-14. 14p. Patient perspectives on premature termination of eating disorder treatment: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis – Journal of Eating Disorders