A Video Update: On Learning to Breathe This video is taken from my video blog www.youtube.com/user/lbersaglio and it talks about the growing process that accompies recovery and also explains why not all of my blogs are about ED specifically. Enjoy!
Once a person is diagnosed with an eating disorder, the initial priority is to cure the physical symptoms. After the physiologic imbalance has been treated, the doctor must ensure that any relapses to the previous state are avoided. That is why the main treatment for eating disorders (and other psychological illnesses for that matter) is …
It was first thought that individuals who have eating disorder and drug addiction will have to undergo substance abuse rehabilitation first then eating disorder next. This approach however proves to be ineffective. What will happen is just a seesaw. Once, addiction is treated and the person is now under treatment for eating disorder, there is …
Eating Disorders are considered a social problem in addition to eating disorders being a physical and psychological problem. Eating disorder associations address the problem and the members of these associations are parents, former patients and medical professionals. The parent body of all eating disorder associations in the U.S. is the National Eating Disorder Association. It …
I wish I had known that as relieved as I felt that my daughter was finally getting a thorough intake assessment, I had no idea for how draining and painful it would be for her for a few days. Imagine taking 2-3 hours focusing on your worse enemy. How much you hate her. How much …
For years, we have relied on psychiatric therapies to help cure different eating disorders. But even after all these treatments, full recovery from eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia still cannot be guaranteed. Then comes neuroplasticity, the thing that researchers claim to be the treatment for various eating disorders. Neuroplasticity works on the principle that …
The Blue Ridge Mountains Two weeks ago, my husband, Bill and I set off on a road trip from Dallas to North Carolina for the Exodus Freedom Conference. It wasn’t an official vacation, though we stopped for some interesting tours along the way… Our first stop was Memphis, TN. I’ve never been an Elvis fan, …
Several antiepileptic drugs are playing an emerging role in management of some eating disorders, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Lindner Center of HOPE. Many AEDs have effects on neural systems that are important in regulating eating and weight control, the authors say. Topiramate, along with zonisamide and felbamate, are …
A recovery focused moment feels like a complete loss of security, but also an opportunity to gain flexibility.Flexibility seems so ambiguous when juxtaposed with the familiarity of hunger.Each success leads to the need for a still more daunting step forward. The mere act of eating is only a success once, the next success is more …
Recovery is bizarre. It’s volatile and linked to so many external factors. The successes and set backs seem like tides – they have an ephemeral quality about them. I can’t quite hold onto the moments long enough to appreciate how different they feel. I don’t have time to fully conceptualize what recovery means, by the …
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