In general, few people meet the daily nutritional needs of their body. If you’re diagnosed with an eating disorder there’s a high probability that you are missing out on a few, possibly even many, micronutrients. Your brain and body can be helped, or harmed, depending on what you’re eating (or, in many cases, not eating). Take, for example, B12 - a Vitamin B12 deficiency has been implicated when it comes to the development of depression.

There is evidence demonstrating that an eating disorder may negatively impact your sleep and, also, disturbances in sleep can exacerbate eating disorder symptoms. As such, during eating disorder treatment, it can be critical to your overall recovery to consider how you’re sleeping.

“Physicians and the general public have had this long-term belief that midlife women are somehow immune to eating disorders. That’s just not true.” In fact, more and more women who are middle aged or older are reaching out for help with disordered eating – with numbers only continuing to rise.

Everyone is expecting you to be merry and thankful. And while you may certainly experience joy during the season, you may also be feeling a lot of other emotions - everything from worry to grief to anger. It’s suddenly not the most wonderful time of the year.