Co-Occurring Conditions - Backcountry Wellness

Our Primary Focus

During your treatment at Backcountry Wellness, our expert medical staff monitors and manages any health issues your eating disorder may be causing. However, there may be additional factors contributing to your emotional health outside of your eating disorder.

A Tricky Combination

Evidence reveals that if you have an eating disorder, it’s likely you are also experiencing co-occurring (or existing at the same time) difficulties in social, emotional or cognitive areas. Eating disorders are often coupled with anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or other co-occurring conditions.

Stats on Co-Occurrence

Below are some insightful statistics on the co-occurrence of eating disorders and mental health disorders, based on a nationally representative survey* conducted by scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH):

Overall Prevalence

More than half of people with anorexia met criteria for at least one mood/emotional disorder.
More than three-quarters of people with binge eating disorder met criteria for at least one mood/emotional disorder.
Ninety-five percent of people with bulimia met criteria for at least one mood/emotional disorder.

Anxiety

Anorexia co-occurred with an anxiety disorder in approximately half of cases.
Binge eating disorder co-occurred with an anxiety disorder in about sixty percent of cases.
Bulimia co-occurred with anxiety disorder in roughly three-quarters of cases.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder was the most commonly diagnosed subtype of co-occurring anxiety disorder

Depression

Anorexia co-occurred with depression in roughly one-third of cases.
Bulimia co-occurred with depression in almost fifty percent of cases.
Binge eating disorder co-occurred with depression in roughly one-third of cases.

* Hudson JI, Hiripi E, Pope HG Jr, and Kessler RC. (2007). The prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Biological Psychiatry, 61(3):348-58.

Treatment for Co-Occurring Conditions

At Backcountry Wellness, we’re experienced in identifying and treating the mental and emotional disorders that accompany eating disorders.

Our treatment programs include individual, group, nutritional and family therapy, complementary lifestyle supports such as yoga and meditation, and when necessary, psychiatric or pharmacological services.

Your treatment plan will include everything you need to create a healthy lifestyle.

What We Treat Co-Occurring Conditions