Comments on: Neuroplasticity is the key to Eating disorders treatment. http://bulimia-cure.com/blog/2008/11/01/neuroplasticity-is-the-key-to-eating-disorders-treatment/ bulimia-cure.com Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Lizette Ayala http://bulimia-cure.com/blog/2008/11/01/neuroplasticity-is-the-key-to-eating-disorders-treatment/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Lizette Ayala Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:28:49 +0000 http://bulimia-cure.com/blog/?p=24#comment-1302 This makes a lot of sense. Hypnotherapy is often used to change all kinds of behaviors, including Eating Disorders because of the brain's ability to make different synaptic connections. Going from the obsession to food to a relaxed focus on some other goal that the ED sufferer wants to accomplish is typically what happens during recovery. One thing I will add is that ED is not a "thing" that's separate from the person. It's very much part of the person and personality. The ED is a label for a compulsion the body has to feed itself food as a means of survival. Obviously what it really wants is not food, but a whole host of other things like, love, acceptance, validation, security, freedom, etc. It's not about food. This makes a lot of sense. Hypnotherapy is often used to change all kinds of behaviors, including Eating Disorders because of the brain’s ability to make different synaptic connections. Going from the obsession to food to a relaxed focus on some other goal that the ED sufferer wants to accomplish is typically what happens during recovery.

One thing I will add is that ED is not a “thing” that’s separate from the person. It’s very much part of the person and personality. The ED is a label for a compulsion the body has to feed itself food as a means of survival. Obviously what it really wants is not food, but a whole host of other things like, love, acceptance, validation, security, freedom, etc. It’s not about food.

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