Counseling Center

Eating Disorders

The struggle to develop and maintain healthy eating behavior has become an increasingly familiar problem facing female and male college students. It is estimated that between 3% and 12% of the college population suffer from either anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder. Many more individuals are battling with milder forms of these conditions.

Eating disorders usually emerge from a variety of underlying emotional, interpersonal, and psychosocial difficulties-- such as maladaptive relationships, loneliness and social isolation, poor body-image, low self-esteem, and cultural pressures to achieve perfection. Anxiety and depression may also manifest through troubled eating.

Help at SIUC

Counseling Center/Health Center/Wellness Center, The Eating Disorder Outpatient Program. Student Health Center, Room 253, 618-453-5371
Wellness Center, Nutrition Program. Student Health Center, First Floor, 618-536-4441
Student Health Medical Clinic. Student Health Center, First Floor, 618-453-3311

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