Hi. The world health organization (WHO) says that obesity has doubled since 1980 and now there rare more than 1.4 billion overweight adults. I noticed among my clients that the major cause for obesity is negative emotions. Anger, boredom,frustration and sadness are the main causes. Of course, some persons are fat because of other causes. Some people start binge eating as a way of "self sabotage", which is especially common among women.
Hi. The world health organization (WHO) says that obesity has doubled since 1980 and now there rare more than 1.4 billion overweight adults. I noticed among my clients that the major cause for obesity is negative emotions. Anger, boredom,frustration and sadness are the main causes. Of course, some persons are fat because of other causes. Some people start binge eating as a way of "self sabotage", which is especially common among women.
I try to help people who have weight issues - and I always tell them it is impossible to deal with that in isolation from other problems they may have.
Emotional eating can be a cause. But to be honest I get a little annoyed when I hear about the obesity epidemic. Obesity is a symptom of the underlying problems that many people have.
But some people are overweight because they don;t know how to make healthy food choices and don't understand about the importance of exercise..
I tried to help one lady who refused to accept that her diagnosis of breast cancer 2 years ago could possibly be something she needed to deal with . She was adamant she just needed to focus on eating smaller portions - and lose the weight she started to put on 2 years ago.......
She wasn't angry, was actually positive - but she failed........
Obesity has MANY factors - and emotional issues are only one....
[COLOR="Navy"]According to the American Psychological Association 51% of obese people had a history of a major depression. I agree with you that there are other causes for obesity, and I have written in my blog about those other causes.:)
I tried to help one lady who refused to accept that her diagnosis of breast cancer 2 years ago could possibly be something she needed to deal with . She was adamant she just needed to focus on eating smaller portions - and lose the weight she started to put on 2 years ago.......
Soul loss. Accompanied, probably, by at least one intrusion.
Which just goes to show that everything - including obesity and eating disorders - has a spiritual aspect as well as a physical and an emotional aspect.
Dear Coolaura,
Binge eating, one of the official eating disorders now , has many causes , along with its maintaining factors..
Like pointed out above, emotions are but one cause. Physiology, trauma of life events, poor self esteem, pathology, genetic predisposition, maladoptive to stressors ..the list goes on... yes including spiritual dimensions as Crowan suggests above for some.
What is not longer true is that: men are suffering from this, just as much as women now..and the statistics shows that there's only a smaller gap between the gender now - unlike a decade ago!
- Mindful Eating
- Bodily awareness
- Better self monitoring skills
- Assertive training
- PD with Interpersonal Relationship skills
- Regular eating with correct & balance nutrition
- Stress & time managements
- Trauma Resolutions
Are just some of the areas, sufferers can do with developing new skills & confidence in.
With warm wishes
Vathani
Societies which have strong familial structure and sense of community they can fall back on...have hardly the problem of obesity.
The society has gone wrong at its base, the fundamental needs are lost In the wake of advancement of technology and predominance of individual freedom
We no longer live as a part of society as our ancestors (even grandparents) did.
It is more isolation on every level. The lone has to carry the burden of it. No wonder it needs to get weighty to carry the heavy burden of it all on their own.
The family support is there for some but it is not wholesome and hearty as it could be.
We nourish each other, we savour each other we make each other strong. When children know that their family is behind them in their victories and losses....they don't encounters problems such as eating disorders. When there is a sense of safety in one's own heart, therapies, healings are never thought about. Human relationships are nourishing beyond belief.
It is gone wrong with broken families, broken society. What Can a therapist do?
We have got our priorities wrong. We have sacrificed the vital in the name of pseudo sense of freedom.
Humans need humans. Right from childhood... All the way until death. Take the vitals away....you open pendora's box full of issues. Nothing can substitute real needs.
Women need to become mothers again, devout, devoted spending time, imparting the traditional wisdom and in doing so forging and nourishing the bond between herself and her progeny. What can nurture like the mother? What can substitute for that?? Then people go looking for mother divine....she is right there in every family but has forgotten her role or is doing it with much diminished way
Fathers need to become fathers again....teaching life skills, staying around, holding hand, being the guiding light in the children's life, honouring the time tested wisdom of our past generations and passing it on. Connecting at a deeper level with their children. It is a ripple effect. Safety security well being happens effortlessly in that environment.
There are no emotional causes per se that can be healed and all the problems solved. It will have to be a reconnecting with our emotions rooted in a family, in the community, in the world around us, for us to feel safe and secure within ourselves.
The islands that we have become....have to reunite with other islands. The patchiness of it sucks. The situation itself is wrong...no amount of emotional healing can change that. The way we have started to live has to go through a simplifying process.
We have sacrificed a lot in the name of technological and social advancement. Socially it is certainly a regression, no advancement there. Simplicity of heart is forgotten about. Life has become complex. Answers are closer. We just keep looking in the wrong direction.