Eating disorders - such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder - include extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues. Oceanside Transitional Living is committed to providing an atmosphere that encourages compassion and recognizes the uniqueness of each individual dealing with eating disorders. Assuring a safe and pleasant facility, we maintain exemplary programs facilitating client education and implementing accomplished research regarding eating disorders.
Oceanside encompasses the medical, physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects of our residents. Eating disorders are serious illnesses with a biological basis modified and influenced by emotional and cultural factors. The stigma associated with eating disorders keeps people suffering in silence and creates barriers to treatment.
Oceanside Transitional Living assists residents in sorting through the issues that eating disorders can create. Our staff is trained to work with residents on relaxation techniques, coping skills and self-monitoring skills as they relate to emotional eating and other eating disorders. Mind-body feedback systems create the neural connections needed for establishing conscious control of pain, stress and negative emotions that lead to eating disorders.
Transitional living may become appropriate when
- The eating disorder impairs functioning but does not cause immediate acute risk
- The resident is unable to function in normal social, educational, or vocational situations, but not suicidal
- Daily bingeing, purging, severely restricted intake, or other pathogenic weight control techniques impair social norms
Facts
In spite of the unprecedented growth of eating disorders in the past two decades, eating disorders research continues to be under-funded, insurance coverage for treatment is inadequate, and societal pressures to be thin remain rampant.
Eating disorders are serious, costly illnesses that can no longer be overlooked and ignored.
Eating Disorder Treatment
Years ago a people with eating disorders went to locked psychiatric facilities, where they were forcibly fed, medicated and even given shock treatments. The first residential treatment centers for eating disorders in the United States opened around 1985. The new treatment centers in the eating disorder industry treat the millions of people currently afflicted with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorders.
Anorexia, especially, is difficult to treat, requiring nutritional counseling, therapy and often prescription drugs. Even with treatment, only 60 percent of those with eating disorders fully recover, 20 percent have partial recoveries and 20 percent do not recover.
Treatment for eating disorders is necessary and it works. Effective eating disorder treatment is sometimes out of financial range for most people, who must depend on inadequate insurance benefits, relatives, or second mortgages to either pay for high-end treatment or settle for county services.
And, what about post treatment? How can a person transition back into society? Oceanside Malibu can help since many patients aren't always ready to go out into the "real world." People with eating disorders can feel overwhelmed and incapable of reasoning due to anxiety and overwhelming emotions. Oceanside is honored to be associated with the Marshak Clinic. The Marshak Clinic is an extraordinary residential treatment center that focuses on Yoga, meditation, and diet. We work closely with the Marshak Clinic in order to provide our residents who have eating disorders valuable tools they can use while at Oceanside and when they leave.
