This clinic offers psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for patients of all ages who are struggling with their relationship with food. We acknowledge the need to address eating concerns from the beginning stages of disordered eating to the development of an eating disorder.
If you or a loved one is looking for help with any of the below struggles, please contact our clinic at 314-286-1700 and request to see Dr. Callie Bishop for an eating concern.
Frequently Treated Conditions:
Disordered Eating: Problematic eating patterns and behaviors due to distorted views surrounding food or body image. Individuals struggling with this may be engaging in over controlled and/or under controlled eating. The distorted views driving these behaviors have numerous causes, but some examples are preoccupation with diet culture due to poor body image and using eating patterns to cope with anxiety/distress.
Anorexia Nervosa: Poor body image and fear of weight gain causing individuals to restrict food, overexercise, and sometimes binge and purge (i.e. vomiting, laxative and diuretic use). These behaviors then lead to weight loss and malnutrition.
Bulimia Nervosa: episodes of binge eating followed by behaviors such as food restriction, overexercise, and purging due to feelings of guilt and body image concern.
Binge Eating Disorder: Frequent episodes of eating large amounts of food in one sitting despite fullness and often wanting to stop. These episodes then often lead to feelings of guilt, embarrassment, and not being in control.
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID): Poor nutritional intake by not eating enough (low volume) and/or limiting diet to a few foods (poor variety, “picky” eating). These eating behaviors can lead to malnutrition and/or significant distress to one’s lifestyle. Reasons for these behaviors can be any combination of food related anxiety, disinterest in food, and dislike of food tastes and textures.