what is the job description for dietitians who work with eating disorders and nutrition ??? i specificly want to be a dietitian for young teen girls with this disorder mixed with nutrition and exercise PLz help! also would like to know the job title

They don't have a special name. They are just Dietitions.

The closest support group for individuals with eating disorders is two hours away from me. Counseling helps, but I'd like to speak with someone who has also gone through what I've been through. Thank you.

Online groups? Maybe you can search Yahoo groups for eating and anxiety disorders.

Does having the secret of hiding your eating disorder please you? In other words, does hiding your secret make you happy?
I was just wondering. I had a drug problem in my teens and part of the benefit was gratification of having a secret. I was wondering if people with ED felt the same.

Get help, get help now. I had anorexia for several years and nobody knew until the very end. It didn't necessarily make me happy to hide it, I just knew I wouldn't have control if I told someone. I'm 5' 4" and weighed 80lbs, I almost died. Even after I started eating again, I developed severe intestinal problems because my body could not tolerate many foods. I STILL have to avoid certain foods, and it's been nearly 10 years.

I have to do a 3min talk on a subject for school. What do you think of this, is it effective, interesting and informative? How would you conclude, am a bit stuck with that.

I have decided to do my talk on phobias, because I just think it’s a really interesting subject, so I’m going to talk about why people get phobias, how they are treated, my suspected phobia and just go through some of the ones I find most interesting.

A phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject.

It is said that phobias usually originate from either a specific event which was traumatic to the sufferer or and evolutionary trait which has conditioned humans to fear certain creatures which could harm them like ophidiophobia fear of snakes. And like other disorders it is believed that, genetics and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a role in weather or not you develop a phobia.

I think that I probably have Suriphobia which is the fear of mice. And I realised this after I started researching this when I looked at the typical behaviours of someone with a phobia. I would say that I torture my self a bit because if I hear a rustling noise then I say to myself ‘that could be a mouse’ I think this originate from a time when I watched the news and they said that you area certain distance above ground from a rat/mouse in
London at all time. That did scare me a bit but what scared me most was that no matter their size they can squeeze under gaps of a centimeter or less. So sometimes when I look at my bedroom door I think a rat can get under that. Even a picture of a rat gives me chills me out and that rat found outside the cafeteria scared the life out of me- it was huge!

There is an amazingly long list of phobias on the internet, and I just picked out a few I found most interesting, but for different reasons. So there are the ones that we have heard about like, arachnophobia which is a fear of spiders, claustrophobia the fear of enclosed spaces and homophobia- fear of homosexuality.
Then there’s phobias like obesophobia which is the fear of gaining weight and it is usually found in those with anorexia or bulimia.

Then on the list were some that made me laugh, because they are quite strange like:
Anablephobia – Fear of looking up.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed.
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – Fear of long words.

I just wanted to share my findings about phobias with you because as I said I found it really interesting and although some of them are funny we should remember that phobias are serious disorders which can affect people’s whole lives.

Thank you,

It's great but cut out some of it because it would take way more than 3 minutes to say. Thanks for the list of phobias, the fear of long words made my day.

So, I have this really good guy friend named Richard. Now personally, I am disgusted by eating disorders. But, he says that guys like women with eating disorders because it shows that they have discipline and self-control. He also says its not an eating disorder if you look good and are thin.

Now do all guys feel this way? This is so confusing.
I mean, yeah, I know guys have them too, but I am just wondering about guys opinions on a girl with an ED.
I might also add, that at the time we were discussing it he was looking at a pro ana/mia forum. and he mentioned how hot the girls were because they were really thin.

Your body, by all nature, needs food to obtain sufficient minerals and vitamins to keep it strong and healthy. Lots of bad things succeed eating disorders besides losing weight a slower and safer way.

i'm 18, going on 19 this year and in college. i'm saving up to get my own place but as of right now i can't. i probably won't be able to for 6-8 months. i do most things for myself and pay for all of my own stuff, etc. and i've always been pretty well behaved. never went to highschool parties, never did any drugs or gave my parents any real trouble. half of the time i'm not even allowed to do things like sleep at a friends house or take the bus to the mall (i don't have a car yet, the economy is really bad here and my minimum wage, minimum hour job hasn't helped enough yet). if they don't want to drive me or let me use the car, i can't go anywhere. i have to run exactly on their schedule. and i understand, they have their own things to do & it wouldn't be a problem if they would just let me take the bus or walk places.

honestly if i said i was going to take a walk to the corner store at 2:00pm on a normal day my mom tell me no. she has nerve issues and is way too cautious about everything. i can see that it wouldn't be a smart idea for me to walk down an empty alley at like 1:00am but with my friends to get a fucking slushy in the middle of the day!? it's pretty embarassing too, my friends can do so much more than me. i'm legally an adult now, treated like an 11 year old.. max. so they're pretty much suffocating me. i've tried talking to them about it, but they don't listen. they justify it with saying that they're only looking out for me, and say that my friends parents obviously don't care about them very much if they let them "go out and walk the streets like that". they're really old fashioned, religious and think everything is "OUTRAGEOUS" ; the opposite of me. i'm a real free spirit and i feel so trapped here, i know they may mean well, but it can get pretty depressing missing out on everything. i honestly feel depressed.

the worst thing about it now is that there's a concert at the end of the month that i really want to go to. music is a huge part of my life and makes me really happy. when i asked about it they looked at me like i was absolutely insane and said flat out no with no reason. i gave them a few days and then asked again, telling them all the facts ; that my friends older sister (24) and her best friend will be driving and going with us and that we'll all stick together and she'll have me home before midnight. i showed them pictures of the venue and the FAQS on it, that it has lots of security and all and they didn't listen to one word i said. just said no. & believe me, if i could sneak out i would, but they're way too hard to get past. i don't even have a key so i could lock the door on my way out, i would probably break a leg if i got out my window and make a scene and i have a lovely loud garage door. they know the night the concert is now and wouldn't believe me if i said i was going anywhere else. and i wouldn't even be able to sleep out anyways! and if i just go ahead and go anyways, they would make my life miserable and deny me and money they may help with for college expenses.

there's a lot more than i mentioned as well, this has been going on ever since i was little. i see that obviously when you're younger you're not going to be able to do that much by yourself but for example when i was 12, i wasn't allowed to swimming at my best friends or even to her house for a couple hours. i wasn't even allowed to go to little birthday parties they'd have at the movie theatre, etc. i can't say for sure but i think this was the cause to the anorexia i had from ages 11-13, because i felt like i had no control over anything. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/overprotective-parents-may-be-causing-anorexia-724569.html

i know many people back all this up with, "oh they love you, be thankful". but there is a limit!

it is really really wrong what they have done to you, but hopefully it has made you a better, stronger person.

Just because they are your parents doesnt automatically mean they are doing the right thing by you, a lot of people end up screwed up because of their parents, but its up to the individual to allow it.

I think you should call a meeting, sit down and tell them its time to listen to you, and speak the truth and be firm. Tell them exactly how you feel about how they are treating you, and that they need to let you go as you need to become your own person and have your own personality.

It was really wrong what they did to you, but you can put an end to it. You need to show them that you have a mind of your own and you arent their child anymore thats going to be walked over by them. My fiance had huge emotional issues all his life because of his parents and thankfully i showed him the truth to what they were doing to him and he hasnt spoken to them for years and it was the best thing he ever did, he is so happy and a different person.

Take it from me, dont let it control you and be your own person.

Someone called me an intolerant asshole after saying eating disorders and alcoholism is not a disease. Now I say this because I thought a disease was an illness created by the invasion of pathogens into the body. Now I thought these are only biological, if someone decides to throw up it is not a disease. Now I believe that it can start a cycle where your body starts rejecting food. But I do not believe it is an actual infectious disease. That is completely ridiculous. And I'm willing to say the same about alcoholism. One chooses to drink your genetics have nothing to do with you choosing to be an alcoholic. Now I believe one can depend on it but still it is not a disease but a psychological issue. I do not think these should be worded as diseases. Because it takes the blame away from the idiots making themselves sick. Basically my question is if something is brought on psychologically how can it be considered a disease?

Well, you already answered your question…those are diseases in and of themselves. What is disease anyway? Isn't it defined as an alternate state of being healthy? Such definition is subtle, but explains well enough that a state of disease is the opposition of a state of health; if having an "eating disorder" results from a person "making himself/herself sick", then isn't that a PSYCHOLOGICAL DISEASE that brought about the eating disorder itself?

You must know that diseases are not only infectious in nature, and need not only be caused by pathogens. Can you blame a person or accuse them of not having a disease if his/her body does not absorb nutrients because he/she doesn't want to eat? Would it change your mind with that same person if you were to find out that his/her nutrient deficiency is actually caused by Celiac's disease or Scurvy or Atrophy or a metabolic disease for the matter? Diseases come in different colors–not just microbially-induced diseases that are infectious in nature.

It is true that alcoholics CHOSE to be that way, but isn't that a disease already? I think the term for that is PATHOLOGICALLY ALCOHOLIC–see the word "patho" in the terminology, pertaining to the latin of disease which is "pathos"?

And just to let you know, "psychological issues" can be PATHOLOGIC; this is exactly the reason why psychological disorders exist. If they are not diseases to begin with, how would you call them? ABNORMAL? But isn't "abnormal" a deviation from the normal state, the healty state? So, to some extent, they do have a disease? Would you rather call those people "wrong", instead of being sick? Because the moment you call them sick just means that they do have a disease, unless of course they are demented…oh, wait, dementia is a DISEASE!

To answer your question, something that arose psychologically which led to the manifestation of a disease is already a disease in and of itself. It was a disorder that made them arrive at a diseased state, so such a disorder or abnormal thinking or whatever pleases you to call them is already a disease of the mind…you don't need to be a doctor to understand the dividing line between the normal and pathologic state. If you were to brand "psychological issues" as "not diseases", then you defeat this purpose, because you are "patho-phobic", which is a disease to begin with.

Let me give this now…is a genetic disease caused by an "invading pathogen"? Or should you claim that there are genes that invade a person to acquire a genetic disease? What about metabolic diseases and enzyme protein mutations…did a bacterium, for example, rearranged such a mutation that brought about the disease itself? And what about prions!? Those invade other proteins of the same kind to be "infectious", but do you consider proteins pathogens that inavde humans? They are not even cells for crying out loud and yet they do cause a disease.

Don't live inside your box, because there are a bunch of things that can disprove your pin-cushion hypothesis and saddleback opinions. I'm sorry to disappoint you on your insight, but you are absolutely mistaken, at least for the most part.

I have three tests tomorrow (Math, English, Science), a Latin quiz, 8 pages of French homework (120 questions), a project due in Latin, and a Science Project, plus an English Essay, and 50 Math Problems, and a History essay!

It is currently 10:00 PM and I am stressing out because I have only done half of that. I haven't even begun studying! I started crying a few minutes ago. And I am only in 8th grade, not even high school! Plus, there is stress because my dad is going to jail for a fraud crime he did not commit and my mom is never sober and I am in a massive fight with a few friends and another friend was just diagnosed with anorexia and I just heard another friend tried to commit suicide!

AND on top of all of that, everyone expects my life to be perfect because I am popular, have a really hot and nice boyfriend, I am upper class and go to an exclusive private school.

WELL NEWS FLASH: my life isn't perfect AT ALL!!

HELP PLEASE!? I am sooo stressed out and I am in tears right now.
my school has around 15 emotionional counselors and around 10 to help with reading problems and such (in the middle school).

I have tried to talk to counselors, but the things they have to say are stupid
and a project is like a test grade. they WILL kill my grade

Take a deep breath. I'm sorry to hear about the situation with your dad and your mom. You should have parents that are there to listen and help when you need them, and it sounds like you can't really count on their support right now. It's going to sound harsh, but the sooner you learn this, the better it will be for your future: you can't wallow in the sadness so much that it becomes self-pity because it's too easy to be the victim. Yes, what you are going through is tough – absolutely, and I don't want to take that away from you. But try to imagine yourself when you are beyond this…it will be so peaceful and you'll have gotten through it. That peace starts now, one step at a time.

If you saw all these projects due on the same day or the same week, it would have been good to talk to your teachers about giving you an extra day. Keep that in mind for the next round of finals.

What I would do when things would pile up like this is to focus on what ONE thing I needed to get done first. That's it. If you get so stressed out that you get paralyzed, you're going to get overwhelmed and not finish anything.

So take a moment to write down ALL of the things you have to get done, in the order they need to be done. Try to decide and jot down next to each item when you think you can finish it by. Then just focus on the one thing that is next to do. If you get to school and haven't finished a project, try to work on it during your other classes, breaks or talk to the teacher early in the day to let them know you're half-way done but think you need an extra day, etc.

Once you get through this crazy round of finals, please, please go talk to your school counselor. You have a lot going on in your life, and you really need an adult that you can trust, who will listen to you and what you're going through.

I'm sending you all my best thoughts and lots of hugs.