“How badly we have done by parents by separating individuals from families, and blaming families for the problem… We need to ask for a day of atonement for past care, and we need to bring families into the picture.” Dr. Thomas Insel Director of the US National Institute of Mental Health 2007 There are a …
Anyone who has suffered from an eating disorder can probably identify with the fear associated with Holidays. especially when it means being with your family. Why is this? Obviously, there is usually more of a focus on food on a Holiday, and many times it is the main “attraction”. Also, the lack of routine on …
Some days are just bad. You know. Those days when you just can’t look on the mirror and the scale is taunting you and all you can think is about is food – not having it, having it, getting rid ofit, getting it….you know the drill. Sometimes when we feel a little out of control, …
Each person’s experience, history and challenges in recovery are different, but the misery of living with an eating disorder is the same – a kind of desperate despair. If you are a person with an eating disorder, no matter how good your life looks on the outside, you know more about suffering and despair than …
You don’t get to have an eating disorder without hurting some people along the way. (Yet another way eating disorders share common features with addictions.) But what if, on the way to getting healthy, we seek forgiveness and it isn’t given? Then we need be reminded …that when regret is sincere, an apology to another …
Every day for the next week, I am going to tell someone’s story (or a little bit of it anyway) who struggles with or has struggled with an easting disorder. Meet Catherine. At 7 years old she started to throw away her school lunches, hide food in baked potato skins and give away her ice …
In a recent article in US News and World Report, that journal reported on the top five signs that your child may have an eating disorder. If you suspect that your child may have a problem, contact a knowledgeable physician or mental health care provider quickly. Remember eating disorders can show up as early as …
Once someone has started down the path of eating disorders it is almost impossible to get away from them. It could be a need to be just as skinny as someone else, or it could be a desire to actually gain weight by eating anything and everything in site. Sometimes it could be someone who …
I received this today through an email listserve that I am part of through the Academy of Eating Disorders. I felt strongly that I should share this, NOT for any political reason, but for the obvious reasons pointed out below…. Every day I become more and more alarmed by the direction of “obesity prevention” initiatives …
Of course not. Who is ever actually afraid of food? Well, I am. Such a silly thing to admit, mostly because no one who hasn’t struggled with an eating disorder could understand it as clearly as we do. When I was reading about Jane Fonda’s battle with bulimia and anorexia last week, I was particularly …
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