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Eating disorders in young people

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  • People with eating disorders can come in all weights, sexes, and ages
  • They don’t cause their own eating disorder; it’s caused by accidental starvation of the brain by going on diets or over-exercising
  • The treatment involves four things:
    - Engage the patient
    - Re-nourish their body so they are medically not at risk
    - Re-nourish their brain to get them out of obsessive starve thinking and back to flexible insightful thinking
    - Link them with psychotherapy that’s evidence-based and provide lots of education and common goals 

    • Host: Dr David Lim | Total Time: 38 mins

    Guests: A/Prof Warren Ward, Psychiatrist

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