
428- Mental Health Out Loud: Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, and Body Image in Teens
ADHD Experts Podcast
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What Drives Eating Disorders in Teens and Adolescents With ADHD?
Eating disorders are definitely, there's a strong inheritance. They do tend to run in families, but it doesn't mean like your mom or dad had an eating disorder. Food happens to be a way to deal with a lot of the symptoms or difficulties with ADHD. It could be something to do when I'm bored. Or getting something and sometimes it's just getting it. And they seek it and that could be part of the ADHD system. So it tends to be an imbalance in all of that and food happens to be something that they turn to to help sue them.
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