The doctor must make an individualized decision and could initiate counselling but at the same time refer to other health professionals specialized in eating disorders. Eating disorders are highly complex life situations with biological factors but also psychological, emotional and behavioural ones. On many occasions, they are an inadvertent behavioural response to extreme stress or vital impotence, which seek to alleviate pain through ingestion (by excess, as in the case of binge eating disorders) or careful control of the diet (by default, as in the case of anorexia). Resolving this situation requires a process of self-perception, awareness, and cognitive-behavioural therapy to recover the nutritional structure and search for the hidden causes of the disorders.