Dr Renee Botham

I am Co-founder of Beat (previously Anorexic Aid/EDA) and an experienced Eating Disorders Consultant Psychologist and Psychotherapist. 

Eating Disorders are so much more than the symptoms and whilst I appreciate how your mind may be full of thoughts about what you eat, or avoid, whether you exercise or purge; what will enable you to 'control' your day, I suspect you 'sort of know'  that these won't make you feel better about yourself. So maybe these ED thoughts have a function, to stop you from feeling lonely and how unhappy you are, even if sometimes you honestly don't know why, you just do. Eating Disorders are really lonely and isolating  and therapy can help. It is my personal and Professional experience that regardless of how long you have experienced this illness you can recover, live life without it being in your life. Not by getting to some magical weight, rather it is our talking together, thinking more about your sense of self and how you feel about your life and the relationships around you. You have your own unique history that needs to be understood, but everything we know tells us you can't do this alone. I hope you will find a moment to take a look at my website for more information and read others' stories.