Emotional & Mental Health Articles

The secret to controlling emotional eating is understanding the reasons you eat. When you find ways of dealing with anxiety, boredom, loneliness, and sadness without food, you are far more likely to lose those extra pounds.

Rumination disorder is a gastointestinal condition that causes effortless regurgitation of partially digested food after eating a meal. Sometimes the food is rechewed. Sometimes it is spat out.

Purging is an attempt to compensate for the calories of a meal that has already been consumed. A purge doesn't always follow a binge. Some people fear fat even when they eat modestly. Here are 10 thiings to know about purging disorder.

When it comes to generalized anxiety disorder, kava kava is proven to work, but it can be harsh on your liver. You can read more about how this plant works from the following article.

What role can mood stabilizers such as lithium, which are more commonly prescribed to people with bipolar disorder, play in the treatment of major depression?

Many people with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome become depressed. How can you recognize the symptoms, and what can be done to help you?

Binge eating is the habitual consumption of mass quantities of food with a sense of being out of control. Binge eaters often eat in secret because they are ashamed of their disease, but treatment and even cure are possible.

Bulimia nervosa is a baffling disease that causes its victims to binge and purge food. Treatment of bulimia is always complex and takes years, but it is possible to beat the disease.

Anorexia nervosa is a puzzling, frustrating, sometimes fatal disease that causes its victims to lose interest in or even to be repulsed by food. Treatment of anorexia is always complex and long-term, but it is possible to overcome the condition.

Most of us have heard of anorexia, bulimia, and muscle worship. But are you on the lookout for eating problems that can be caused by Prader-Willi syndrome, gourmand's syndrome, or pregorexia? Here are explanations of 5 common and 15 rare eating disorders.