eating disorder | Counsellors Café Mag

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How to support someone with an eating disorder this Christmas?

Hope Virgo, Author and Mental Health Campaigner Christmas with an eating disorder can feel really challenging and I know if you are...

8 min

A Time for Self Reflection (Trigger Warning)

There was a time when I couldn’t look in the mirror. I would avoid them at all costs. Accidentally catching my reflection in a shop window w

5 min

Binge Eating Disorder - The Most Hidden of all the Eating Disorders (Trigger Warning)

I’ll only have one, and before long the whole packet is eaten, and you end up feeling guilty and disappointed in yourself. Then shame and di

6 min

A new ally but no friend of mine (Trigger Warning)

I have had many times in my life when I have felt the darkness drifting in, I always focused it on to external factors, that made it changea

4 min

Binge Eating: The Forgotten Eating Disorder (trigger warning)

In my own words, binge eating disorder is an uncontrollable compulsion to eat. For me, this means that it is incredibly hard for me just to

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How to support someone with an eating disorder this Christmas?

A Time for Self Reflection (Trigger Warning)

Binge Eating Disorder - The Most Hidden of all the Eating Disorders (Trigger Warning)

A new ally but no friend of mine (Trigger Warning)

Binge Eating: The Forgotten Eating Disorder (trigger warning)