I didn't notice it taking over my life. People around me were concerned but I ignored them. I lied to my family and friends about what I was eating, how much I was exercising, about how I...
If you're wondering what is the best adolescent eating disorder treatment option, on the one hand there's no one treatment option for adolescents, or for anyone, that works perfectly...
Figuring out how to intervene with someone, a loved one, family member, or friend that has an eating disorder can be no easy task and there's no right or wrong formula for exactly how best to...
I wish that the answer to the question, how to overcome Anorexia could actually be summarized in a short video on the topic. I actually wish that we as mental health treatment providers had a surefire...
One of the things we know about side effects of severe dieting is that psychological effects that can come out of severe dieting can actually look a whole lot like symptoms that we see in patients...
Why does my wife eat so much? I hope you have not been dancing around to songs about how you like big butts while mocking her skinny one. Uh, no. That’s probably one vice I have never engaged in....
Pica is an unusual type of eating problem. We don't actually, officially consider it as an eating disorder diagnosis. It's elsewhere as an official diagnosis. Pica is an unusual eating...
BulikNotJustTeenGirls So another myth – that eating disorders are somehow the province of white upper middle class teenage girls. Another one that's got to go. The number of middle age women...
A couple of years ago, I think I was 16 or 17, I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, as well with several OCD tendencies as well as some Asperger tendencies. I was having a really hard...
Bulimia Bulimia nervosa (bn) is characterized by large intake of food in a very fast and feeling of loss of control, called hyperphagia or bulimic episodes. These are accompanied by inadequate...