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Therapy benefits: here’s how therapy can help you to release negative body image emotions
3 years ago
2 min read
In a 2020 survey, 61% of adults reported feeling negative about how they look. Could therapy change that?
It’s been a month now since most menus across the UK have listed the calorific content of every bit of food and drink, and we’re still reeling. Much has been written about the impact on people with eating disorders, and the little evidence that supports the impact of this policy is poor quality.
In 2020, a parliamentary survey of nearly 8,000 people uncovered that 61% of adults reported feeling negative (or very negative) about their body image most of the time. The pandemic didn’t help: 53% of adults reported feeling ‘worse’ or ‘much worse’ about how they looked during the first lockdown.
Mental health services received a record 4.3 million referrals last year, according to new research by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Helplines are also struggling: for example, the eating disorders charity Beat received 7,840 calls between December 2021 and February 2022, up from 3,346 in the same period in 2019/20.
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