If you suspect a mental health problem, you should go to your primary care center, where professionals can refer you to a mental health center for children, adolescents, or adults if necessary. The treatment offered at specialized centers is multidisciplinary and individualized. Professionals in psychology, psychiatry, nutrition, and nursing are primarily involved. Depending on the case and needs, a social worker or occupational therapist may also be involved.

Treatment can be outpatient or, in extreme cases, inpatient (primarily day hospital). Psychological therapy typically involves individual and group sessions. Medication will be prescribed if deemed necessary to facilitate psychotherapeutic intervention.

The goals of treatment are:

• Find out why the symptoms appear, what function they serve, and work to acquire strategies to cope with stressful situations in a careful and self-respectful way.
• Reduce and eliminate binge eating.
• Reduce and eliminate vomiting and the use of laxatives.
• Normalize physical exercise.
• Normalize eating habits.
• Normalize weight (if applicable).
• Normalize biological parameters (analyses).