What is an Eating Disorder? An eating disorder is characterised by unhelpful beliefs and over concern about shape and weight, which in turn leads to weight-control behaviours that are detrimental to the person. Eating disorders are complex and can significantly impact all areas of a person’s life, such as physical health, emotional wellbeing, and social […]
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What is Trauma? When we experience stressful, frightening or distressing events that overwhelm our capacity to cope, we might define this as trauma. How events affect a person is unique and determined by many factors, what one person may experience as traumatic may not affect someone else in the same way. When we feel stressed
What is Dissociation? Dissociation is a disconnect between a person’s thoughts, feelings, memories, actions, identity or a sense of who they are. Mild dissociation such as daydreaming or losing yourself in a book is common, but dissociative disorders are more debilitating and can potentially lead to a disruption in all areas of functioning. During traumatic
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