Ever wonder if you have a serious problem with binge eating? In the Harvard Mental Health Letter, I read a feature article about the treatment of bulimia and binge eating. Bulimia is defined as 2 or more episodes of binge eating (consuming a large amount of food in 2 hours or less) at least twice [...] Read more »
Treating an Anxiety Disorder
What is an Anxiety Disorder? â??Anxiety disorderâ? is a term that covers many different types of nervous conditions that cause anxiousness, feelings of fear or other unwanted, counterproductive or irrational feelings. These feelings of anxiety can be due to a particular phobia, to a particular event or happening earlier in life, or may be due [...] Read more »
Anorexia is a Serious Disease That Needs to be Unmasked in Early Stages
Anorexia is an illness that comes with loss of weight, physical and emotional problems. It is not a bad thing to lose weight but the affected persons lose too much weight and their lives are put into danger. Besides this clear loss of weight anorexia can be recognized after some habits these patients have: they [...] Read more »
back from Remuda
Hi~ I’m finally back from treatment! yay! I’ve missed you all so much! Sorry that the sound is way off Duration : 0:8:32 Read more »
how do eating disorders differ from other types of mental disorders?
EDs are the only mental illness involving food – something that all people need and all people use consciously. EDs can also be created – you hear about “wannarexics”, the people that starve themselves to lose weight for prom or something like that, but wannarexics can end up with actual, full-blown EDs because the change [...] Read more »
I found this quote from a myspace profile.?
I don't know if it's a quote or a song or what. I can't find any research on it either. I really like it though. "They say we haven't been through half as much as they have. Sure, they watched in horror as they heard the news of Kennedy being shot, and went through the [...] Read more »
What are some novels about eating disorders?
have read The Best Little Girl in the World (tolerable) and Life Size (brilliant). What other novels are out there about eating disorders? Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is a memoir, and probably my favorite eating disorder related book. Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig is more of a [...] Read more »
Calls for pro-anorexia websites to be closed. What can be done to stem the rise in eating disorders?
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1306604,00.html I´ve never come across one of these sites and don´t know how easy they are to access…. but eating disorders worry me a great deal. I work with children and currently have a TWELVE year old in my class diagnosed as anorexic. This is by no means the first case in school . It [...] Read more »
Anorexia in Boys, what parents should know
It seems that the answer to the following question should be so obvious: Who gets eating disorders? Women and girls, right? Actually … yes, but… More and more, boys are at risk for these disorders as well. Today, anorexia, bulimia, and especially, binge-eating disorder are on the rise in the male population. What most parents [...] Read more »
Legitimate/citable Canadian website involving anorexia/belemia and other eating disorders?
i need some good websites for a project i'm doing on eating disorders for my anthropology,sociology, and psychology class preferably they should be canadian also if anyone knows any good books along the same lines that would be great National Eating Disorder Centre: http://www.nedic.ca/ About older people: http://www.agingincanada.ca/anorexia.htm Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia Association: http://www.phe.queensu.ca/anab/ Books: [...] Read more »
