Anorexia Articles

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• Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia
  Between three and six percent of all teens struggle with some type of eating disorder, be it bulimia, binge eating, or anorexia. Because these illnesses involve eating, they seem to take a blow at family ...
• 10 Ways Loving a Dog Can Teach Us to Love Our Bodies
  Worried parents often come to my psychotherapy office, wondering how to teach their children to have ...
• Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Recovery from Eating Disorders
  Aimee Liu writes with a gentleness and an understanding that only someone who has been through the painful process of recovery can truly possess: Her 1979 memoir, Solitaire, was the first discussion of anorexia nervosa ...
• Eating Disorders Spike Among Middle-Aged and Older Women
  When you hear the term, eating disorder, many people may typically think of a perfectionistic adolescent girl heavily into ...
• Is Trying To Change an Addictive Habit Worth It?
  Drugs. Alcohol. Food. Exercise. Shopping. Gambling. Attempts to change or fix other people. Trying to make more ...
• Parents Important in the Prevention, Awareness of Eating Disorders
  Eating disorders are now epidemic in the United States. Approximately 11 million women and girls struggle ...
• Challenging Body Distortions Through the Eyes of the Body
  Body image is the picture in our mind's eye of how we look to ourselves. It reflects our beliefs about how we think others perceive us ...
• Making the Most of Your Whole Self: Being an Embodied Therapist
  Since human beings communicate through their bodies long before they learn to talk, the language of ...
• Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance
  Humans are obsessed with body image.  The media says we should look a certain way, else we be outcast and forgotten.  Although men do feel the need to have an attractive appearance, women are more ...
• The Voice of an Eating Disorder
  Many people have a difficult time comprehending eating disorders and their true intensity and severity. Myths abound: Eating disorders are a choice. (They’re ...
• Getting on Track with Your Eating Behaviors
  For those who struggle with food and eating, the new year often brings the resolution to do better this time around: Lose ...
• What We Eat: Morality and the Dinner Table
  We humans enjoy dividing things into categories. Doing so helps us form cognitive shortcuts and organize large sets of information. ...
• Food, Family and the Holidays
  If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
• Wannarexia: What Parents Can Do
  Anorexia nervosa is a serious illness with dangerous health consequences and has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Yet some people yearn ...
• Size Does Not Equal a Healthy Body
  I will never forget the night my 6'3" tall, slender brother and his even taller, slender friend bought two tickets for the ...
• 10 Tips to Ease Concerns About Your Weight
  Given the focus on weight by the health establishment, the government and the media, it is not surprising that many people in this country are anxiously asking the same question. And there is no shortage ...
• A Chance to Live
  Inside every human being is a drive. Sometimes the drive is clear cut: he or she wants to be a doctor, a lawyer, a wife, a mother, a husband, a father, or something else entirely. ...
• The Eating Disorder Beast Can Be Beaten
  I'm 15 years old, it's 3:00 p.m., school is out and I can't wait to get home and be alone. I'm dizzy, lightheaded, and cold. As I go to my locker to get ...
• Purge: Rehab Diaries
  In our society, eating disorders are mostly misunderstood and glamorized. We’re told that everyone with an eating disorder is skin and bones. That just by looking at someone we can easily spot the starvation, the ...
• Q & A with Eating Disorder Specialist Sari Fine Shepphird: Part 1
  Sari Fine Shepphird, Ph.D, a Los Angeles clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist, is the author of 100 Questions & Answers about Anorexia Nervosa. Psych Central contributor Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., spoke with her about ...
• Demystifying Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  Some dismiss body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) as vanity; others believe it’s a rare and extreme condition. Though many misconceptions continue to circulate, BDD is a real, fairly common body image disorder. It affects men and ...
• Overeating: It’s All In Your Head
  The following is an excerpt from the book Three Minute Therapy and focuses on the topic of overeating and how cognitive-behavioral techniques can be used to help a person overcome this concern. They say that inside ...
• Restrained Eaters May ‘Let Go’ During Pregnancy
  Women who usually are restrained eaters tend to gain more weight than other women when they're pregnant, say researchers. Excess weight gain may be linked to child obesity, so a team from the University of ...
• The Psychology of Diets
  Evidence suggests that our dietary habits and the decisions we make about what we eat are acquired over several years, but what psychological processes underpin this kind of learning? And why do preferences vary across ...
• Study Gives Hope for Anorexics’ Future
  Previous research has indicated a high rate of mortality and illness for patients with anorexia nervosa. A recent Swedish study, however, found positive long-term outcomes for adolescent anorexics. Dr. Frank Lindblad and colleagues at ...