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DAWN CENTRE
We are a treatment centre, treating all kinds of eating disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, comfort eating and obesity.
Our location is in a peaceful area, without the stress from the city, still very close to Dublin, but also to Naas and Newbridge, very easy to reach with public transport.
We chose ‘Dawn’ as a name for our clinic because it means a new beginning, the end of a dark night, a hopeful sunrise.
We offer an intensive day programme but also an evening programme with individual sessions and group sessions for treating all kinds of eating disorders.
With this we’d like you to feel that with support and the right kind of treatment, you can learn to understand and care for yourself better, help to solve your problems and maybe start a new way of life.
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I told another lie today
And I got through this day
No one saw through my games
I know the right words to say
Like "I don't feel well"
"I ate before I came"
Then someone tells me how good I look
and for a moment
For a moment I am happy
But when I'm alone
No one hears me cry
I need you to know
I'm not through the night
Some days I'm still fighting to walk towards the light
I need you to know
That we'll be okay
Together we can make it through another day
I don't know the first time I felt unbeautiful
The day I chose not to eat
What I do know is how I changed my life forever
I know I should know better
There are days when I'm okay
And for a moment
For a moment I find hope
But there are days when I'm not okay
And I need your help
So I'm letting go
You should know you're not on your own
These secrets are walls that keep us alone
I don't know when but I know now
Together we'll make it through somehow
Together we'll make it through somehow
Lyrics from Superchick: Courage
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Do you have an eating disorder?
Do you:
- Constantly think about food, weight or body image?
- Have difficulties concentrating because of these thoughts?
- Become anxious prior to eating?
- Experience guilt or shame around eating?
- Count calories whenever you eat or drink?
- Feel “out of control” when it comes to food?
- Binge eat twice a week or more?
- Still feel fat when others tell you that you are thin?
- Obsess that your stomach, hips, thighs or buttocks are too big?
- Weigh yourself several times daily?
- Exercise more than one hour every day to burn calories?
- Exercise to lose weight even if you are ill or injured?
- Label foods as “good” and “bad”?
- Vomit after eating?
- Use laxatives or diuretics to keep your weight down?
- Severely limit your food intake?
- Have a fear of gaining weight?
- Prepare food for others but never eat what you cook?
- Feel that others would prefer if you ate more?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have a disturbed relationship to food and eating.
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