Somebody once said that if you aren’t living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space. Seventeen years ago I truly took that to heart and indeed thought I was taking up too much space, so I decided to live on the edge…my edge was called Anorexia. It was as close to …
Forget football, baseball, arm wrestling, or loud bodily function noises contests, when it comes to competition,men have nothing on women. Honestly if any heterosexual men even had a clue what it was like to have that extra X chromosome they would be wearing high heels, getting botox, and having the fat sucked out of their thighs on a daily basis. They would …
It might seem easy to identify someone with anorexia, but the truth is that it isn’t. And while some people think it’s a simple disorder that only involves limiting food intake, anorexia nervosa is much more complicated than that. Typically, someone who suffers from anorexia nervosa has feelings of self-worthlessness, depression, self-consciousness, envy or the …
Everyone thinks that they have some basic knowledge of anorexia nervosa, but experts know that it’s a complex, multi-layered disorder that goes beyond just restricting caloric intake. Megan E. Shott, who conducts research at the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychology, found that individuals that face anorexia nervosa could also have issues with cognitive deficits …
If you can’t decide what to be for Halloween this year, do I have a costume for you! If you wanna be the life of any party, then you have to get the “Anna Rexia” outfit! You heard me right, you can dress up as “Anorexia Nervosa“! Anorexia: The Costume? I mean everybody wants to …
I was chilling on the couch Sunday ready to watch the Grammy’s when I heard that Whitney Houston had died. It was like a little punch in the gut, as it brought me back to the day where I used to bop around in pegged acid-wash jeans and bangle bracelets belting out “how will I know if he really loves me?” …
I have been on every diet in the world. I’m serious when I say that too!! If somebody told me that I could lose weight by consuming nothing but a cracker jack I did it, if I read that you could lose 5 lbs overnight by putting cayenne pepper on everything, I gladly sprinkled away. If I had to eat 20 pounds of …
“My insurance is cutting out.” That dreaded sentence professionals fear most. When I first began doing this work, I was struck by the irony of hoping someone would become more symptomatic so her insurance company would authorize her to get help. . . that someone already receiving care would continue to struggle so that her …
“I didn’t know. I didn’t understand. I had no idea.” These are phrases often spoken after the fact, looking back with 20 /20 hindsight. These are the heart wrenching phrases, hand wringing phrases, and the verbal symptoms of a bad case of The Should Haves. Feb 26, 2012, is the first day of National Eating …
My readers will recognize my response as an excerpt from one of my blogs. This is my response to this article in the Huffington Post. Dear Galia, I applaud your effort! I wish I’d been influenced by someone like you when I was a young girl just beginning to get assaulted by unrealistic expectations of …
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