Back in 2014 when I went through my first ever struggles with mental health, I was doing intensive care at the priory as well as having one on one therapy. During this period of my life I was struggling with severe anxiety and depression, and I was doing all sorts of classes in hospital, a lot of the classes that I did were based around DBT. Depending on you as a person and of course your diagnosis, your recovery plan will be different, but for me I found that DBT was extreme

What is food addiction? Food addiction/ Binge eating disorder - a serious mental illness where you have complete loss of control around food, a binge is an episode of excessive eating, people who binge tend to eat very large quantities of food over a short period of time, even when they are not hungry. This person will find themselves thinking about food constantly, worried about it, planning around it and obviously indulging. It is one of the most common eating disorders. B

For a long time I truly did not understand why I am the way I am, I couldn't understand why my mood swings were so severe, why I was so impulsive, irrational and unstable a lot of the time. I didn't get why I seemed to come across violent and harmful to others when I was going through an explosive episode of anger, because I am a caring and empathetic person who loves unconditionally. I've lived my life overwhelmed by the strength of my own emotions and how quickly they chang