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Anorexia : Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as a Possible Treatment of Anorexia

Of the many types of therapy available as a possible source of help for the anorexic Cognitive therapy is a possible source. Cognitive behaviour therapy or CBT as it is more commonly known is the processes of helping a person get rid of negative thoughts you might have about yourself.

The person suffering from anorexia can have a hatred of themselves and how they think they look, cognitive therapy can help a person realise those thoughts are unfounded.

The course of CBT treatment is usually is started at the beginning of the first session by assessing what it is that you want to get out of the treatment and each individual session with your therapist will usually last about an hour.

During this time the anorexic will be able to talk open and freely about feelings about themselves and how they feel about there weight, what fears they have about putting on any weight and literally any negative thoughts and feelings.

After the session the therapist might give the patient some exercise to do, these are not exercises as such but therapy at home such as relaxation exercise or keeping a journal with thoughts and feelings jotted down.
How Cognitive Therapy can help you
This type of therapy can help the sufferer in several ways, it teaches the sufferer the actual facts of the disease and help them understand the harm it does to there body.

It will also help the anorexic understand why the illness happened in the first place and what keeps them suffering at the hands of this disease.

CBT therapy will also show the person how to talk openly and express there emotions of how they feel about themselves freely. It can also help you change the way you think about food and how you see yourself.

Your therapist can also show you how to maintain a healthy diet which you will be able to maintain a healthy weight for your height.

The mainstay of CBT is to talk openly and bring out any deep rooted feelings and thoughts, this is achieved in several ways, learning and practising to rid your self of any negative thoughts and feelings and replace them with only good and positive thoughts is essential to the treatment.

Your therapist may also teach you how to change the way you behave, for example teaching you the right way to eat, perhaps you skip breakfast, and your therapist may ask you to eat a portion of fruit for breakfast as a change to your routine.

There are lots of small changes that the cognitive behavioural therapist may ask you to make but these all go towards making that big step on the road to a healthier and normal lifestyle which is free from the burden of anorexia.

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