Most girls begin to struggle with eating disorders in their high school and college years. But if the eating disorder isn't appropriately treated, it can carry on into adulthood. More and more therapists are seeing older women who have either relapsed or never fully recovered from eating disorders.

"Renfew [Center of Philadelphia], for example, created separate group therapy sessions for women over 35 after they went from constituting 10% of inpatients in 2001 to 17% two years later."

For older women, the eating disorder can become a coping mechanism, as it did for Sorelle Marsh, who continued to binge and purge even after 14 years of marriage and two kids. Learn more online.

Posted By: Lori S