April is Emotional Overeating Awareness Month. As a family caregiver this is an ideal time for you to learn about this common form of emotional expression and how it can impact your elderly loved one during their later years, and you in the course of your care journey. A common response to stress, anxiety, and other mental and emotional health issues, overeating can lead to a variety of serious physical health issues and can negatively impact your ability to care for your parent. Understanding this issue can help you to recognize it in your journey so that you can handle it properly.
Some things that you should know about emotional overeating include:
- Binge Eating Disorder is the most common eating disorder suffered throughout the United States.
- Approximately 3.5 percent of women can be diagnosed with a clinical binge eating disorder.
- Approximately 2 percent of can be diagnosed with a clinical binge eating disorder.
- Approximately 30 to 40 percent of the total population of those seeking weight loss treatments can be diagnosed with a clinical binge eating disorder.
- Emotional overeating involves using eating as a means of coping with feelings as opposed to healthier, more effective methods.
- Emotional overeating involves using eating as a means of releasing emotion, numbing emotion, or “taking care of yourself” when dealing with difficult emotions.
- Approximately two million people throughout the United States deal with binge eating or emotional overeating.
- Approximately 1.5 percent of men and women throughout the United States deal with night-eating syndrome, which involves frequent waking at night to eat or snack, often resulting in consumption of far more calories than intended or noticed.
If you have noticed that your caregiver efforts have become more than you are capable of handling on your own or you believe that your parent would benefit from more or more diversified care than they are currently receiving, now may be the ideal time for you to consider starting home care for them. A care provider is an exceptional addition to your care routine, providing a highly personalized set of services tailored to addressing your loved one’s individual needs, challenges, and limitations while also supporting a greater level of independence, activity, and engagement. This helps your parent live a quality of life that they desire and deserve. In your role as a family caregiver, this can help you to relieve stress, focus your energy and attention more efficiently on your parent as well as the other obligations and responsibilities in your life, and continue to take care of yourself in the proper way so that you can be happy, healthy, and the best quality caregiver for your aging loved one. When it comes to helping your parent cope with mental or emotional health concerns, or giving you the support and assistance needed to handle your own concerns, the customized support, schedule, and companionship of a care provider can ease stress, reduce anxiety, and help your parent to maintain a higher quality of life, as well as giving you the ability to focus on your own well-being.
If you are considering hiring caregiver services in Ashland, Ohio, call the caring staff at Central Star Home Health at (419) 610-2161. Providing services for families in Mansfield, Lexington, Bellville, Mt. Gilead, Loudonville, Crestline, Galion, Shelby, Ashland, Wooster, and the surrounding areas.
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