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Vily Bergen suffered from a severe eating disorder in her youth. In the new podcast episode, she not only talks about her own experience with it and how she managed to get out of it. She also draws attention to the fact that men in particular are increasingly slipping into eating disorders these days.
“Eating disorders often go undiagnosed in men because we have been asking the wrong questions for years,” says the best-selling author, meditation and mindfulness trainer. Because men deal with their addiction very differently than women. “Men often have what is known as exercise bulimia – they have massive binges and then often run to exercise,” she explains. The problem is not even visible to the men themselves because they compensate for these binges with exercise. “You’ve basically already found a solution.” But the addiction is definitely there.
In addition, men are often afraid to seek help. “The general public perceives an eating disorder as a purely female disease. Men therefore often feel ashamed when they admit that they are also affected,” she explains. It is important to face the problem and seek professional help.
Book: Soulful Healing
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