People with eating disorders, at some vulnerable time in their lives, experienced relentless, continuous, thorough and inescapable boundary invasion. The eating disorder developed as a way to escape, protest and, tragically, duplicate that boundary invasion.

By looking at these self destructive behaviors from the perspective of hunger diseases offers several treatment strategies. One, at the core of the hunger disease is pain and as a means to self soothe the patient has developed self harm. This is a sad reality, but when understood and given to insight, the patient feels understood and hopeful for change.