Tuesday, February 7, 2012

[WATCH]: Eating Disorder Treatment Often Crucial to Recovery From Overeating, Weight Loss Surgery

Timberline Knolls Medical Director Dr. Kimberly Dennis, MD, discusses eating disorders that are often not diagnosed by doctors or therapists, such as food addiction, compulsive overeating disorders, and binge eating disorder. Like anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and body dysmorphic disorders, over eating disorders are serious diseases with their own signs and symptoms, and course of eating disorder treatment. Patients seeking gastric bypass, gastric banding, or other weight loss surgery options to deal with obesity often miss out on the need for psychiatric care to address the emotions associated with an eating disorder. Dr. Dennis and the team of physicians, counselors and dietitians at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center are

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