A new study reveals further insight into the links between personality traits and the onset of eating disorder symptoms. Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are serious and potentially life-threatening mental illnesses that affect around 1.25 million people in the UK. Characterized by intense fears surrounding eating, weight and body shape, these disorders can cause a significant amount of psychological distress and often co-occur alongside other conditions such as anxiety and addiction. Anorexia alone has the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder, but little is known about Read More