" Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Eating Disorders "

Eating disorders do not discriminate, i.e., they can strike any gender, race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background, according to the Eating Disorders Coalition, the organization for eating advocacy and awareness. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders says that at least 30 million Americans have eating disorders, and every 62 minutes, at least one person dies out of it. Despite the commonness, the myths associated with it abound in nature. Such as that a person with an eating disorder is severely overweight or its a choice to overeat. It is not!

A retrospective evaluation of US hospitals between 2013-2015 provided elaborative characteristics of people with eating disorders. This analysis indicated a broad range of mindless eating and binge-eating along with co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses among them. The initial behavioral eating disorder outcomes revealed increased body weight, relapse of intense emotions, and finally, admitted to the program of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

The implementation of DBT integrated with mindfulness and emotion regulation has shown positive outcomes among many people. Eating disorders typically commence due to invalidating environment conditions that fail to understand one's life complexities. This further reinforces a person's painful feelings and turns them into food. The rationale behind applying DBT is that it's based on the affect regulation model to cope with emotional vulnerability, unlike other approaches.