back from Remuda
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Hi~ I’m finally back from treatment! yay! I’ve missed you all so much! Sorry that the sound is way off
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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
Bulimia help for many is available in the form of one to one weekly therapy with a qualified counselor specializing in Bulimia or eating disorders. National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) reports high success with weekly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) session over minimum of six months for bulimia treatment. Some therapist offer sessions over the phone. Although most recent studies support the value of counseling, this may not be ideal if you are shy in nature or dread talking deeply about your bulimic life to someone intensely in person right now. Joining a local support group, embarking on a CBT based Self-help program or combination of any of these three choices may be what appeals to you most.
As bulimia recovery is extremely difficult to undertake alone, recruiting professional help, support and guidance along side the support of your family and friends will help you stand a good possibility of progressive recovery that lasts. Nowadays, silent sufferers worldwide can also access bulimia treatment help via the Internet. Some professional bulimia treatment sites provide therapeutic CBT based Bulimia self-help programs written by experts in the bulimia treatment field, with bulimia sufferer in mind, so he or she can be guided to help him/herself. Therapist worldwide are now are very mindful of how people are suffering from bulimia in the dark, a situation that can easily be remedied.
The initial step here is for you to recognize that you have a condition that needs to be treated professionally. Even the most effective cure for Bulimia would be useless, if your whole heart is not on your full reason to give up bulimia and lead a healthier lifestyle. Determination, self-discipline, and self-awareness are necessary if you are serious about your bulimia recovery.
These are just some of the skills you could learn using self-help program, with possible step-by-step programs to free yourself from these self-harming bulimic ways. The ongoing support, advice, motivation and recommendations from your therapist are a strong feature of an effective CBT program. The appeal of any self-help program, is that you can be at home working on yourself and bulimia recovery at the pace that is right for you, day by day, week by week with additional support from your bulimia therapist. Those already in therapy can also benefit from any bulimia self-help programs to fast track their personal development and a bulimia free life with reduced need to have lengthy or costly face to face sessions with their therapist.
You may involve a most trusted loved-one, to help you go through the self-help program, thus increasing the support around you and making sure the risk of lapse through lack of motivation or complacency does not cost you your recovery so far.
This is my first video about my battle with bulimia. I can’t believe it took me 8 years to speak up about it, but I guess we all have to start somewhere. I’m going to look for treatment in September once i go away for school because my parents have no idea about my eating disorder, so recovering at home is out of the question (for now). So the journey to recovery begins!
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Living in a culture obsessed with body size and shape, it can be hard to feel good about the way you look. But eating disorders caused by unrealistic body image ideals create much larger problems–diminished self-confidence, unhealthy eating and exercising habits, and an inability to see yourself as a person rather than a number on the scale. What’s Eating You? takes aim at the motivations behind your relationship with food and helps you to better unders… More >>
What’s Eating You?: A Workbook for Teens With Anorexia, Bulimia, and Other Eating Disorders
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Eating disorders are but one of many specific pathological responses to the pressures of the modern world. In group therapy, patients battling bulimia nervosa can learn from one another how to heal the emotional wounds that have put their health in jeopardy. Group therapy addresses the four etiologies of eating disorders by teaching the sociocultural context, discussing both the psychological and familial constellation of each member, and providing a forum to addres… More >>
Parents involved in their children`s bulimia therapy may double the children`s percentage to overcome binge eating after six months, according to American researchers.
The study was conducted at the University of Chicago and involved eighty teenagers, aged twelve to nineteen, who suffer from bulimia nervosa. Thirty-nine people were assigned to supportive psychotherapy and forty one to family-based treatment.
The study`s results showed that forty percent of the participants who had family-based treatment managed to stop binge eating and purging, and only eighteen percent of those who had supportive psychotherapy. Thirty percent of the participants who had family-based therapy managed not to binge or purge at six-months after treatment, while only ten percent of the standard therapy group had the same results.
Parents may play a key role in their children`s therapy, according to Dr. Daniel Le Grange, lead author of the study and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of Chicago. Parents should encourage their adolescents to eat healthy and normally, and watch them during and after mealtimes to make sure they are not purging.
Parents and their follow-up role have been left out of the therapy although the family-based approach proved to be more efficient, said Dr. Le Grange. However, the researchers are still questioning whether the family involvement or the eating behavior in the family was responsible for the improved results.
Eating disorders may lead to serious health hazards and further research is needed in order to understand and treat eating disorders, said Le Grange.
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