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Anorexia nervosa is characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weigh control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. It often primarily affects young adolescent... more

Bulimia Nervosa is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentional purging. This purging is done in order to compensate for the excessive intake of the food and to prevent weight gain. Purging typically takes the form of vomiting; inappropriate use of laxatives... more

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is currently listed under Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified in the DSM-IV-TR. In binge eating disorder, the person does not regularly engage in compensatory behaviors, such as, vomiting, fasting or doing strenuous exercise after binge eating. Another eating disorder category under Eating Disorder NOS meets all the criteria for Bulimia except that binge eating and compensatory behaviors are less than two times per week or for less than three months. Often, people with Binge Eating Disorder are overweight or obese.. more

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About Eating Disorders

Patient Entry Forms

We encourage those who visit us to make an honest attempt to get the most out of their time within our facility. Upon your entry into The Bella Vita, the required paperwork alone can take a substantial amount of time, which cuts into your time with the doctor, and may offset the actual time of your appointment. For this reason, we've made our patient entry forms available online, via our website, for you to print out and complete prior to your arrival at our office. Completing these forms in advance will cut admission time by more than half, and allow us to immediately respond to what matters upon your arrival... your well-being.

Please, find the description that most closely matches the reason you'll be seeing us, and print the appropriate forms. Complete all forms to the best of your ability, prior to your visit with us. Sign all pages that require signature, and initial all section of each page that require initialing.

Eating Disorder Packet

If you are have an eating disorder and are enrolling in one of our outpatient programs, you will require the forms found in this section. It's important to read these thoroughly before signing, and complete them prior to your visit. Download

Counseling Services

If you are enrolled in any of The Bella Vita's individual, couple, or group therapy, or you are seeking a psychiatric evaluation, you'll need the forms found in this section. Please, read these forms thoroughly, and complete them to the best of your ability. Download

Partial Hospitalization Programs at The Bella Vita
Our preferred method of intensively treating patients with a severe eating disorder, our partial hospitalization

program is an effective, result oriented therapy that imbues our patients with a sense of ability and confidence towards these debilitating, yet treatable, types of eating disorders. Read More

Intensive Outpatient Programs at The Bella Vita

Our Intensive Outpatient Therapy program may be the perfect treatment option for someone who has an actively

obligated life, one who can only take minimal time off in order to maintain the responsibilities necessary to carry on with their normal life, yet requires treatment in order to cope with an eating disorder. Read More