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How Do I Cope?
Coping With Stress
How we deal with stress can result in a number of negative behaviors and symptoms. Are you experiencing these symptoms or the use of these methods to cope?
- Undereating or Restricting Food
- Overeating or Compulsive Eating
- Binging and Purging
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Bad Body Thoughts and Distorted Body Image
- Procrastination and Fear of Success
- Over exercise
- Alcohol and Drug abuse and addictions
Some Notable Statistics
Thirty percent (30%) of women who seek treatment to lose weight have binge eating disorder. (Drugs and Therapy Perspectives)
About seventy-two percent (72%) of alcoholic women younger than 30 also have eating disorders. (Health magazine, Jan/Feb 2002)
Without treatment, up to twenty percent (20%) of people with serious eating disorders die.
- With treatment, that number falls to two to three percent (2-3%).
- With treatment, about sixty percent (60%) of people with eating disorders recover.
Approximately 1 million males have an eating disorder.
It is estimated that currently eleven percent (11%) of high school students have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. (ANAD)
Eighty percent (80%) of all children have been on a diet by the time that they have reached the fourth grade. (Time Magazine)
Fifteen percent (15%) of young women have substantially disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. (National Eating Disorder Screening Program)
2 out of 5 women and 1 out of 5 men would trade 3 to 5 years of their life to achieve their goal body weight. (Rader Programs)
Ninety-one percent (91%) of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting, 22% dieted "often" or "always." (Kurth et. al)
Thirty-five percent (35%) of "normal dieters" progress to pathological dieting.
Of those, twenty-twenty five percent 20-25% progress to partial or full syndrome eating disorders. (Shisslak & Crago)
A Study conducted by Cornell University found that 40% of male football players surveyed engaged in some sort of disordered eating behavior. (Newsweek)
Men constitute as many as forty percent (40%) of those exhibiting Binge Eating Disorder. (DSM IV)
An estimated 1 in 3 of all dieters develop compulsive dieting attitudes and behaviors. Of these, one quarter will develop full or partial eating disorders.
In a study done on men in the navy, 51.3% had an eating disorder, anorexia (scoring 13%) being the most common one.
Forty-two percent (42%) of men with bulimia are homosexual or bisexual.
Fifty-seventy percent (50-70%) of all eating disorder sufferers also suffer from depression and/or anxiety.
What Can The CEDRIC Centre Do to Help?
Over the past 15 years, I have developed a simple and effective set of tools for shifting your harmful thoughts, feelings and behaviours and a step by step process for implementing those changes and making sure they stick.
Men and women worldwide have experienced lasting change in their relationships with food, with their bodies and with the key people in their lives through The CEDRIC Centre's unique program. You can too.
What Can I Do? How Can I Stop?
For more information or to speak with one of our qualified counsellors, please fill out our request for services form.