highly sensitive people – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:53:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png highly sensitive people – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 The Empath – Exploring the link between high sensitivity and eating disorders https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-empath-exploring-the-link-between-high-sensitivity-and-eating-disorders/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-empath-exploring-the-link-between-high-sensitivity-and-eating-disorders/#respond Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:53:49 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=8701 Until I saw The Empath, I’d never heard of Highly Sensitive People. I had however met many. Sensitive to change, a complex tangle of emotions, highly conscientious, easily overwhelmed, feeling a need to withdraw, needing to avoid upsetting or overwhelming situations, highly attuned to other people’s feelings, often emotional, shy and self critical. All of these are characteristics familiar to anyone with an eating disorder.

But is correlation or causation? As with a lot relating to the field of eating disorders, no one really has a clue. But it’s worth a thought. You can read more at The Empath.

 

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