Articles on Bulimia
When Advice Crosses the Line
During the process of my son’s recovery from his eating disorder I have received advice from many places. More often than not this advice was helpful and appreciated. Many...
It’s Not About the Panini: A Story About OCD and Anorexia
18 years ago I found myself drawn to a light switch. Turning the lights on and off became an ordeal as every room’s light switch hypnotized me into gliding my fingers across it,...
Book Review: Pound for Pound
In Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman’s Recovery and the Shelter Dogs who Loved Her Back to Life, Kopp writes of her struggle with bulimia. Weaving together...
Quick Facts About Eating Disorders: Anorexia, Binge-Eating, & Bulimia
This article describes quick facts and statistics about the three most common eating disorders, anorexia, binge-eating, and bulimia. Facts About Anorexia An estimated to percent of women...
Health Consequences of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders — such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating — are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s emotional and physical health. Eating disorders are neither a...
What To Do if a Family Member Has an Eating Disorder
Accept that there are no quick and easy solutions for recovery from an eating disorder. Therapists, physicians and other eating disorder experts have no magic cure. If your loved...
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 around food and mealtimes....
Hope with Eating Disorders: A Self-Help Guide for Parents, Carers and Friends of Sufferers
Eating disorders are constantly in the news, and have been for some time now. Yet it’s quite astonishing to note how few people truly comprehend the psychological factors involved...
A Family Guide to Eating Disorders, Part 1: Prevention
How much should you worry if your teenager starts to claim she’s not hungry, eliminates foods from her diet, or expresses worry about becoming fat? When does “fussy” or...
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 weight, get fit, eat more healthfully. You...
The Importance of Support for Eating Disorders
In her first session with me Rose exclaimed emphatically, “No offense to you, but I feel that I should be able to control my food and weight by myself...
A Family Guide to Eating Disorders, Part 2: Identification & Treatment
In Part 1 of this Guide, we focused on strategies for preventing the development of eating disorders in children. In Part 2, we will turn to the warning signs...
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 not, but you can choose to...
Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction — and My Own
Have you ever heard a skinny, super successful, professional woman spouting the horrors of obesity? We all have, and the widespread reaction from anyone who has ever struggled with...
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?...
