Why Your Eating Disorder Keeps Shapeshifting & How to Break Free

About this episode

Kati Morton discusses the complexities of eating disorders and provides insights on coping and recovery.

Eating disorder shapeshifting explained, therapy dissociation tips, no contact with adult child response, self-acceptance after weight gain, feeling unseen or outcast, skin picking dermatillomania, broken UK NHS mental health system, social anxiety in sessions, neurodivergent experiences, body image struggles, anxiety after injury, DSM vs ICD-11 differences, parasocial relationships advice. Licensed marriage and family therapist Kati Morton answers your real questions in this Ask Kati Anything episode—get expert insights on coping, recovery, and feeling seen. Shopping with our sponsors helps support Ask Kati Anything. Please check out this week's special offers: • Hero Bread is offering 10% off your order. Go to https://www.hero.co/ and use code KATI at checkout • Hers - visit https://www.forhers.com/kati for personalized, affordable weight loss plans with licensed medical support • Zocdoc - find and book top-rated doctors, therapists, or mental health providers near you in minutes. Go to https://www.zocdoc.com/kati Audience questions: 0:47 - Q1: Mind goes blank when therapist asks 'what do you need?' (social anxiety, dissociation) 6:16 - Q2: Why eating disorders shapeshift from…

People in this episode

Host: Kati Morton

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• therapy
• self-acceptance
• body image
• anxiety
• mental health
• neurodivergence
• social anxiety
• dermatillomania
• DSM vs ICD-11

Keywords

• shapeshifting
• dissociation
• weight gain
• feeling unseen
• broken mental health system
• parasocial relationships

Sponsors

Hero Bread, Hers, Zocdoc

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Products: Hero Bread, Hers, Zocdoc

Books & works: Ask Kati Anything

Places: UK

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