“A person suffering from eating disorders should first consult their usual attending physician who will have them undergo the necessary examinations (blood test in particular) in order to detect any possible deficiencies and who will refer them, if necessary, to a health professional. adequate health care or hospital team. For this kind of pathology, most of the time, an intervention with a nutritionist is offered to the person. In addition, it may be necessary, depending on his age and the disorder from which he is suffering, that the patient also undertakes psychotherapeutic follow-up in order to be accompanied in his change of eating lifestyle and to manage his lifestyle. often pathogenic, associated with eating disorders (TCA). Psychotherapy can also come to treat the anxiety-depressive disorders frequently found in people suffering from a TCA.

This psychotherapy can be practiced in a group or on an individual basis, it will allow both the subject to recognize his disorder and also to appreciate the impact that this produces at the family level and the dysfunctions which participate in the maintenance of the disease. It can be psychoanalytic or cognitive-behavioral. “

Laure Deflandre, psychologist