Exploring the Intersection of Neurodivergence and Eating Disorders
Eating disorder Recovery Support Conference, 2024, San Francisco, CA
At the 2024 EDRS COnference, Allyson spoke about treating Eating Disorders and OCD through a neurodiversity affirming lens.
The learning objectives included were:
Understand the similarities and differences between Eating Disorders and OCD.
Understand the Obsessive Compulsive Cycle and how it is reinforced.
Understand how to apply ERP in a modified, agentic, affirming and harm reductionist way.
Understand how traditional Eating Disorder treatment can make OCD worse.
Understand other techniques to use with OCD that are not rooted in ERP.
