It may be more commonly used to vote for NZ Idol or make plans with friends, but text-messaging is increasingly being employed in health problems.
Auckland University researchers have studied text messages as a way to help people give up smoking.
Now a German study is trialling text-messaging with people suffering the eating disorder bulimia nervosa.
The use of technology-based therapies to help treat bulimia was raised at a psychiatrists’ conference in Christchurch this week.
Dr Zoe Williams, principal registrar at Orygen Youth Health in Melbourne, said the use of technology such as email, computer programmes and text messages was in the early stages, but appeared to be useful in helping people with eating disorders.
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“Texting can be bulimia aid”
i can see that just doing something with your hands which is also connecting you to someone else is really helpful when trying to resist the urge to binge. I picked up crochet for that exact purpose…
i can see that just doing something with your hands which is also connecting you to someone else is really helpful when trying to resist the urge to binge. I picked up crochet for that exact purpose…
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