Be in charge and in control without the limitations of your eating disorder. Conquer your panic, anxiety and fear of your weight. Liberate yourself from your eating disorder in a non judgement environment.

There’s a thin line between love and hate

As someone experiencing an eating disorder, you face many complex and challenging issues to understand and deal with. Daily life can be a conflict; on one hand you have the desire of wanting to get better and on the other hand, you fear the implications and impact upon your life if you do recover.

You may be aware that it is a destructive lifestyle, yet it keeps you safe, protected and in control - it has gone beyond an obsession with food, rather the eating disorder itself has become an addiction.

You may have a “love hate” relationship with it. It can consume all your time and influence everything that you do. It can dominate your thoughts, feelings and emotions. It can send you to huge “highs”, yet it can cause you crashing “lows”.

From Chaos to Control

You don’t just wake up one day with an eating disorder. What often starts as a simple food restriction gradually becomes stricter, until over time it turns into an obsession that becomes an eating disorder.

For you the initial trigger may have been a traumatic event such as abuse, or a life changing event that bought fear, insecurity and a lack of control. It might have been a careless whisper - a misplaced comment that triggered it.

Regardless of what the trigger was, it was clearly important to you at the time. You may recall these events and associated feelings regularly, or your eating disorder may be the method you use to cope with or block out the events and their effects.

Restricting your food may have given you back the sense of control that you needed. It may have helped you feel more confident, more attractive, more desirable and more loved. It may have created a better body image, and helped you “fit in” with a peer group, or it may have helped you stand out.

But over time, what was once a good coping mechanism became less effective. Your sense of perfectionism combined with the addictive aspects of the eating disorder demanded you take more and more restrictive, controlling and extreme measures.

I want to break free…

Though your eating disorder may bring you real benefits, at times you are torn between the pros and cons. It can leave you feeling confused and anxious.

You may feel guilty, fearful of what others think, worry about being “found out”, fearful of what it is doing to your body, worried about long term damage and you may feel hopeless, that there is no way out.

You may want to stop, but feel huge anxiety and panic around losing control, gaining weight and not being able to stop eating once you’ve started.

You may be depressed or have contemplated suicide. You may wonder how long you can sustain this way of life.

Even if you decide to seek help who do you trust? You may be worried about being taken seriously, fear being judged for what you do and more importantly, be afraid of being forced and pressurised into treatments that you don’t want. You may wonder if anyone can ever understand you and what you are going through.

The stigma and social judgements attached to eating disorders may prevent you seeking help for the fear of repercussions on your employment, education, relationships and future prospects in general.

As a man with an eating disorder you may feel further alienated and isolated as there is the often the perception that eating disorders are primarily a female issue.

Whether you have been formally diagnosed with an eating disorder or whether have been battling with an eating disorder alone or in secret, you can liberate yourself from it. Find out how by visiting ourconsulting website, orcontact ustoday to book your consultation.

Change your life today … Live, don’t just survive

At The Naked Gene Juggler, we believe that in order to break free from any eating disorder and make a long lasting recovery, the many different aspects of the eating disorder need to be resolved.

We work with the many stresses that you face in your day to day life, whilst helping you resolve the root cause of your eating disorder.

We are committed to helping you through the different stages of your recovery and adapting to a new future - one where you are in charge and in control, but without the limitations that the eating disorder places on the quality of your life.

Take the opportunity to be the director of your own life

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