Trinity spotlight on eating disorders
The spotlight is falling on eating disorders with a special health promotion event at Trinity University College, Carmarthen, next week (February 22). Health experts will be on hand at a special campaign launch to mark the start of Eating Disorders Awareness Week. “It is important for students to be aware of any potential problems they may have with eating disorders,” said one of the organisers of the event, Trinity student counsellor Jean Harris. An eating disorder is both an obsession with food and an expression of emotional distress. Thoughts and behaviour relating to food, body weight and size are a means of dealing with emotional pain that cannot be expressed satisfactorily in another way. An eating disorder is a way of coping and often a way of avoiding dealing with hidden issues. People with an eating disorder generally feel that they have little control over their lives, except over what they eat. Student counsellor Jean Harris said she had the following advice for students – “
