Eating Disorder Therapy San Diego

Food is meant to sustain, fuel and satisfy us. But for some people, their relationship with food is less healthy — and much more complicated. An eating disorder is a serious mental illness characterized by an unhealthy preoccupation with eating, exercise, and/or body weight or shape. Eating disorders affect several million people in the United States — most commonly afflicting women between the ages of 12 and 35.

Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. People with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa tend to be perfectionists with low self-esteem who are hyper-critical of their bodies and their entire selves. In many people, eating disorders occur together with other psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, panic and obsessive compulsive disorder — as well as alcohol and drug abuse problems.

Eating disorders can be accompanied by a wide range of symptoms, with the most common including severe restriction of food, food binges or purging behaviors such as vomiting and over-exercising. In severe cases, untreated eating disorders can result in serious health consequences, sometimes even leading to death. Here at BOLD Health, we want you to know that we have experience treating people living with eating disorders, and you don’t have to suffer forever.

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Struggling with an eating disorder can be frustrating and difficult. You may worry about your body weight, the amount you eat or not enough food eaten etc.. But there is help available for those struggling to maintain a healthy life balance around their relationship with food. Through treatment, people learn how to control their emotions in order focus on larger goals rather than being consumed by thoughts of what they are going to eat next.

San Diego Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating disorders are life-threatening biological illnesses that can be treated through a variety of treatments. One such treatment in San Diego at BOLD Health helps clients to improve their relationship with food and body image by balancing time spent on other tasks in order to fulfill larger goals.

Some of the conditions treated at BOLD Health in our eating disorder treatment facility include:

  • Anorexia nervosa (characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss)
  • Bulimia nervosa (bingeing on large amounts of food followed by purging or compensatory behavior to avoid gaining weight)
  • Binge Eating Disorder - a form of bingeing where people eat more than they feel comfortable with, but do not purge afterwards. This can lead to obesity over time...etc.
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A team of San Diego eating disorder therapists.

If you or someone in your family is struggling with an eating disorder, it can be difficult to find help. BOLD Health understands the challenges of living with a mental health condition and offers comprehensive treatment for both patients and their loved ones. We're ready to provide guidance as you fight through recovery together.

We have two levels of care for our patients: One is psychotherapy and the other focuses on medical treatment. We believe that not everyone with an eating disorder has exactly the same needs, so we customize this approach to meet each patient's particular situation. Our staff members are compassionate experts in helping you cope with body image distortion, purging behavior, obsessive thoughts about food or weight loss; they also work hard to treat your physical complications from these behaviors as well.

Our program is not like many others. We don't assign you a doctor, but rather a team of specialists in the fields of psychiatry, internal medicine, psychology and nutrition that will coach you through your recovery process. You'll also get group therapy and individual sessions with our staff as well as supervised meals to ensure that proper nutrients are taken into account during this time period for effective treatment results. Through our program instead assigned by doctors on teams .

Specialists give compassionate support including both groups multiple therapies , thorough medical assessments body-image counseling -supervised eat ings high ratio between patients so here every step we're personalized treatment—to take place personalizing recovery specifically according patient unique needs.

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Focusing on the body can be helpful for people recovering from eating disorders. The program at our facility is comprehensive and personalizes your recovery to you, allowing patients to focus more on their bodies during treatment than doctors would otherwise allow them too.

With individualized therapy sessions that will give specific attention towards mental health as well as physical wellbeing this team-focused approach provides a supportive space where each patient has access not only with psychiatrists but psychologists who specialize in issues of self image including nutrition counseling, nurses who are up-to date about medical assessment standards.

Do you think you may be suffering from any of these conditions?

We’re here for you and are ready to help you walk through the process of self-discovery and healing. Give us a call at 760-503-4703 or contact us with any questions.