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The key factor in is therapy. Once a person has found a therapist she/he likes, this is often the start of a long process toward recovery. The duration of the eating disorder will certainly be the first determining factor: the shorter its history, the more like ....

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.... condition and treatment typically involves years, not months. Some people expect that when the eating disturbance goes away, psychotherapy is over. This is not true. The process of psychotherapy helps a person resolve the emotional dilemmas that led them to food in the first place. This part of treatment fully begins when the eating itself is less of an issue. Then a psychotherapist deals with the psychological aspects of the disease. When someone enters therapy, it does not necessarily mean that the eating disorder will lessen in a predictable manner. Sometimes people initially increase the bingeing or purging in a last-ditch attempt to h ....