What are you hungry for?

This term represents the deeper urge that nags at a person and leads them to feel empty. Typically, when a person feels empty they want to fill the emptiness, the urge to take action and relieve a disruptive feeling is appropriate.

Hunger diseases often start gradually and spiral out of control, until becoming life threatening. Treatment is essential. Therapy for hunger diseases addresses the eating disorder, self injury and or compulsive shopping, and the depression, shame, anxiety, and relationship difficulties that may also be present.

Restriction of food, bingeing and purging, cutting and overshopping are all examples of behaviors gone awry. Only curing a person of the symptomatic behavior, such as the eating disorder, will not satiate the deeper hunger. By treating the actual hunger disease, behaviors and feelings will be more understood and a person will feel more in control of their livelihood for long periods of time.