Welcome to week two looking at connections between our hormones and our mental health. This week we are looking at how our relationship with food can impact our overall mental wellbeing as well as the balance and production of hormones in our bodies. This is something that is especially important in disordered eating.
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Welcome to our 3-part series exploring the link between our mental health and our hormones. Over the course of the next 3 weeks we are going to look at ways in which our mental health, reproductive hormones and eating patterns interact and influence the way that we are feeling on a daily basis.
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One of the hardest years in my own recovery was when I stopped looking anorexic. It seemed like it happened overnight. One night I was okay – I was coasting. I was doing all the things - showing up, eating the food, in recovery and then suddenly something changed. I woke up and my whole body felt different.
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Unlike other addictions such as drug addiction or alcoholism, a person with an eating disorder cannot avoid the trigger of all of their mental and physical pain. They have to eat. No matter how much pain it causes them – they have to eat. So what do you do if you’re struggling?
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