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Eating Disorders

Do you struggle with your relationship with food? Eating disorders are a serious mental illness that have a high mortality rate. They include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binging and/or purging, over-exercising, clean eating, laxative abuse, diet pill abuse, and others. Symptoms include avoiding food, lack of hunger/satiation cues, discomfort with food inside the body, starvation euphoria, hyperactivity and excessive sports training, lack of feeling tired, dissociation from the body, and negative body image. I have experience in all levels of eating disorder treatment from inpatient, IOP, PHP, to outpatient.
Resources for eating disorders:

1. Academy of Eating Disorders website provides information on eating disorder etiology: https://www.aedweb.org/resources/about-eating-disorders/fast-facts
2. The National Eating Disorder Association offers many free services and information including a helpline: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/covid-19-resources-page 3. The National Institute of Mental Health: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/eating-disorders/index.shtml 4. The Eating Disorder Resource Center (EDRC) is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and offers various forms of support: https://edrcsv.org/

Following is a video where I discuss the relationship between body image and eating disorders:

Please contact me for more information on my psychotherapy services, or to schedule a brief complimentary consultation. I offer tele therapy to any California resident, and in person sessions to those living in the San Francisco Bay Area that include: Palo Alto, Menlo Park, San Mateo, San Jose, Los Gatos, and others. I am an out of network provider, and can provide you with a monthly superbill to submit to your insurance provider.
Dr. Robin Ruth 2443 Filmore Street, #380-7876 San Francisco, CA 94115 info@robinruth.com
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