This is your brain in recovery with Dr Caroline Baumber
Caroline Baumber is a doctor, currently training in psychiatry. She has personal experience of an eating disorder which began in her teens and lingered into her adult life. She has been using Instagram to inform others of the mental and physical aspects of eating disorders since 2020. Now fully recovered she is hoping to use her personal and professional experience to help people create an identity outside of their eating disorder. Outside of mental health, Caz is a punk rock enthusiast and keen runner.
In this episode…
- Caroline’s personal journey from living with an eating disorder to now being a Dr and helping others in the eating disorder recovery space.
- Clarifying what an eating disorder is
- The effects of starvation on the body and brain – and how this makes recovery difficult
- Eating disorders and OCD
- How to start recovering from an eating disorder
