Eating disorders are significant mental and physical diseases that entail complicated and harmful interactions with food, feeding, exercising, and self-image or form, resulting in an unhealthy concern with somebody’s existence. In the United States, these illnesses affect roughly twenty million females and ten million males regardless of age, race, socioeconomic class, faith, gender, or sexuality (Mehler, 2019). People should stop neglecting their condition, express their feelings honestly, and engage in more social activities.
Mental illnesses are best treated with mindfulness without negative associations and stress. As eating recovery caregivers advise, it is better not to panic and gently ask for outside support. Therapeutic relations of solution-focused group counseling can provide this support, increasing the patient’s recognition of himself and treatment motivation without causing more anxiety (Yildirim & Aylaz, 2022). Professionals help a person find a solution by strength by proving how he genuinely coped with problems before. It arises more positive emotions that maintain the patient’s mental health and push him to recovery. Therefore, nursing interventions with daily therapeutic sessions provide adequate support for victims to fight eating disorders.
Another recommendation is engaging in more activities without food involvement. Social interactions may be uncomfortable for those with an unhealthy relationship with food, and dining in public could be incredibly distressing. Persons who lack self-confidence may shun social situations, only to become increasingly alienated (Mehler, 2019). It is better to start with personal hobbies such as writing, dancing, and performing music that has assisted afflicted people in dealing with the condition. People practicing yoga admit that it contributes to body awareness, reducing restrictions and more tolerance toward body sizes (Jahanbin, 2019). Thus, people fight their insecurities by focusing on other activities except for food.
To conclude, understanding psychology under the illness improves the situation. When a person realizes his illness and puts all efforts into healing without rushing, he starts his recovery. Significantly, negative emotions, great expectations, panic, and anxiety disrupt the process by making the patient more stressed. Concentrating on other things and getting enough support from loved ones and therapists efficiently cope with the existing eating disorder.
References
Eating recovery caregiver do’s and don’ts. Eating Recovery Center. (2020).
Jahanbin., E. (2019). Yoga Therapy and Eating Disorders. Caspian Journal of Health Research, 4(1), 21-27.
Mehler, P. (2019). Clinical guidance on osteoporosis and eating disorders: the NEDA continuing education series. Eating Disorders, 27(5), 471-481.
Yildirim, H., & Aylaz, R. (2022). The effects of group counseling based on the solution-focused approach on anxiety and healthy lifestyle behaviors in individuals with eating disorders. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 58(1), 180–188.