Eating Disorder Treatment

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Introduction

Eating Disorders are the condition of a person having less or high food intake as of the medical health reasons, these are also characterized as the disorder caused by the abnormal eating habits of an individual. The causes of this disorder are related to a person's medical and mental health as well. Some types of eating disorders include Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa; these disorders are most commonly found in United Kingdom. Except for these there are other disorders as well including binge and others which are not specified under any category as yet. A person suffering from an eating disorder can be found either eating more or eating less or maybe eating not at all, which is also a possibility (Klinger, 2013).

Although Eating Disorders are not specifically linked to any particular form of disease or any symptoms but to happen if a person goes through any unusual medical or mental sickness; therefore, it that at the very least an eating disorder should be get checked by a medical professional as the medical history is the strongest tool for the identification of an eating disorder. The eating disorders are sensitive to the extent that they are caused even by a continuous unusual disturbance to one's daily pattern. There are some specific types of treatments that to be as the most common ones for the treatment of eating disorders these include residential treatment and outpatient disorder treatment, and details to the following below:

Discussion

Residential Disorder Treatment

In this type of treatment, the patients with extensive monitoring and care. They are provided with 24 hours of monitoring and critical care and treatment. Nutritionist, therapists and other such medical professionals are monitoring over an individual at a 24 hour rate. They are monitoring a person's each and every activity including the person's health conditions at a live-in facility. These types of treatment are the one that keep the patient's of eating disorder under observation in a live in facility 24/7. This allows the professionals that are monitoring the patient to evaluate and find out as to what is wrong with the patient and what is causing the patient to suffer from an eating disorder.

Furthermore, the residential disorder treatments are mostly very structured and thus allow the patient to focus on the physical and psychological healing as every thing that is needed by the patient is present for them in one central location. This keeps the patient's attention completely on his/her self healing while keeping them in an environment, in which they are under observation; therefore, in which they in order to find the cure of the problem that caused the disease, this in turn helps them the disruption that is causing the disorder but also to find a possible cure to it (Keel et. al, 2003).

Therefore, the expected time for the recovery of a patient from an eating disorder is termed as much shorter than that what is predicted to be the time by other medical treatments for the eating disorder in ...