{"id":507,"date":"2021-03-31T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=507"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:14","slug":"finding-hope-for-patients-with-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2021\/finding-hope-for-patients-with-eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Hope for Patients with Eating Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Finding Hope for Patients with Eating Disorders\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Eating disorders are difficult to treat and often have a protracted course with less than 50% of adults achieving recovery from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. These conclusions are based on longitudinal research that examined outcomes over a decade. &nbsp;Recent longitudinal research by <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/nassim-tabri\/\">Dr. Nassim Tabri<\/a> (from the Department of Psychology) and colleagues in the U.S., however, indicates that people with eating disorders can recover after being sick for 10+ years. The study involved women with eating disorders recruited from the community who participated in the Massachusetts General Hospital Longitudinal Study of Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa. Results showed that most women with bulimia nervosa recovered after a decade whereas most women with anorexia nervosa recovered after two decades. The findings offer a hopeful and positive message to people living with eating disorders. To read more, please click:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/mghresearchinstitute.org\/2017\/11\/03\/kamryn-eddy-finds-hope-for-patients-with-eating-disorders\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating disorders are difficult to treat and often have a protracted course with less than 50% of adults achieving recovery from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. These conclusions are based on longitudinal research that examined outcomes over a decade. &nbsp;Recent longitudinal research by Dr. Nassim Tabri (from the Department of Psychology) and colleagues in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wellness-wednesday"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}