Words of caution when considering the use of “ terminal anorexia ” : perspective from lived experience
After reading the article “Terminal anorexia nervosa: three cases and proposed clinical characteristics,” I was grateful to have not had access to the article a year earlier – when I would have personally met criteria. I was holding on to a sliver of hope at the time that I could enter back into a quality
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Words of caution when considering the use of “terminal anorexia”: perspective from lived experience originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Military and medicine: 10 shared risk factors for eating disorder development
In 2017, I was medically discharged from the military due to an exacerbation of an eating disorder. At that time, anorexia nervosa (AN) provided relief from the depression that I had developed secondary to the multitude of stressors that came with being in the Air Force and an oral and maxillofacial surgery resident. Years later,Read more …Military and medicine: 10 shared risk factors for eating disorder development originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/jillian-rigert" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
For the mental health crisis of care, quality is as much of a problem as quantity.
Most people who seek mental health care for the first time are baffled by how to find a clinician. I know what many parents felt. When my daughter, Lara, finished her first semester at Oberlin, she returned home to Atlanta thin and exhausted. I was excited to have her back home and entirely clueless about her desperate struggle with anorexia. In fact, as I learned later, she had been driven by obsessions about her weight and her appearance for over a year by that point. As was true of Amy, her perfectionism and her shame at not being perfect...
Source: SharpBrains - March 16, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Thomas Insel Tags: Brain/ Mental Health eating disorders eminence-based care evidence-based care mental health crisis mental health providers psychiatry psychologists serious mental illness therapists therapy Source Type: blogs
How well do you know what you look like? Research on self-perception, digested
In this study, levels of self-esteem were linked with these misperceptions — the lower a person’s self-esteem, the more likely they were to exaggerate their own hip size, and the slimmer they considered a “typical” woman to be.
We make all kinds of other body-related mistakes, too. For example, when people feel powerful, they’re more likely to think they are taller than they actually are. Also, typical healthy people have a distorted sense of their body volume and length, according to a paper in Cortex in 2019. The 40 young adults involved in this study tended to overestimate the length of various body...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature The self Source Type: blogs
Eating disorders thrive in secrecy, so let ’s talk about it [PODCAST]
“I was diagnosed over 20 years ago, and looking back, I feel privileged that I did meet the stereotype for anorexia and be forced into treatment. However, along the way, I have gained insight that people of all bodies share my struggles. And the use of weight/BMI to determine whether someone is struggling and shouldRead more …Eating disorders thrive in secrecy, so let ’s talk about it [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Obesity Source Type: blogs
Eating disorders are mental health illnesses that don ’t have a certain “look”
A few days ago, I talked to a mentor and brought up my anorexia recovery journey. Using my voice after years of suffering in silence has been instrumental in releasing myself from the inner torment while trying to create purpose from the pain. When I mentioned my struggle with anorexia, the mentor responded,“How areRead more …Eating disorders are mental health illnesses that don’t have a certain“look” originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jillian-rigert" rel="tag" > Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs
Stop prescribing one eating disorder to treat another: Why under and overeating are not “opposite problems”
Throughout my recovery journey from anorexia with a propensity for compulsive exercise, I have often heard, in a tone full of self-judgment,“I have the opposite problem.” What the person is typically referring to is that they feel they eat too much, exercise too little, or both. The self-judgment usually reflects the way society placesRead more …Stop prescribing one eating disorder to treat another: Why under and overeating are not“opposite problems” originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jillian-rigert" rel="tag" > Jillian Rigert, MD, DMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Our mental self-portraits contain clues about our personalities
By Emma Young
If I ask you to picture your face and body in your mind, what do you see? And how do your beliefs and attitudes about your self — including your personality and your self-esteem — influence these mental self-images? Completely fascinating answers to these questions have now been reported in a new paper in Psychological Science. The findings are important not just for understanding how we all see ourselves, but could also be useful for studies into body image disorders.
Artistic self-portraits have long been recognised as reflecting aspects of the artist’s identity and emotions, as well as the...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Faces Personality The self Source Type: blogs
The Top Five Digital Health Innovations For Food Tracking and Eating
Your body might be your temple, but in principle, we don’t take good enough care of it – not when it comes to the food we consume. In the Western world, we practically have no idea what we eat and how that affects us. Technological innovations can help us track what’s in our food and what we should eat based on our genetic background. In this article, we enlisted the top trends concerning eating and food tracking.
Let’s talk about food.
Almost 700 million people have some health problem with food or eating
For some, eating is the most natural process on Earth. You are hungry, you get some n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Food Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers digital health eating Innovation Medicine parkinson scanner technology wearable wearables gc3 food sensors food scanner food tracking food trackers digital innovation Source Type: blogs
A case for changing the way we talk about obesity
You are finger. No, I have fingers. You are leg. No, I have legs. You are pancreas. No, I have a pancreas. You are fat. Hmm … Now let’s try this with disease processes: You are diabetes. No, I have diabetes. You are cancer. No, I have cancer. You are anorexia. No, I have anorexia.Read more …A case for changing the way we talk about obesity originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 16, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jill-becker" rel="tag" > Jill Becker, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Obesity Source Type: blogs
A Key Element Links Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar And More (M)
Problems with interoception link many mental health issues including anxiety, major depression, bipolar, anorexia and schizophrenia. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Mental Health subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Next: Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy?
How ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry (Nature):
… The Imperial study was one of a spate of clinical trials launched over the past few years using illicit psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and MDMA (3,4‑methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known as molly or ecstasy) to treat mental-health disorders, generally with the close guidance of a psychiatrist or psychotherapist. The idea has been around for decades — or centuries in some cultures — but the momentum has picked up drastically over the past few years as investors and scientists have begun to champion the approa...
Source: SharpBrains - February 4, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Books lysergic acid diethylamide MDMA mental health disorders psilocybin psychedelic psychiatrist psychotherapist Psychotherapy Source Type: blogs
Olanzapine FTW for Nausea Outside of CINV
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A few months agoan interesting olanzapine study was published which I have been meaning to write a post about. It ' s important because while olanzapine has really established itself in the last decade as a highly effective antiemetic for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting, and is now in multiple CINV guidelines (eg Antiemetics: ASCO Guideline), etc, we don ' t have a lot of data for its efficacy for nausea outside of CINV, and so a well-done RCT is welcome.The study is amulti-center, US, adult, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial of olanzapine for nausea in advanced cancer...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 1, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: anorexia cachexia nausea olanzapine rosielle Source Type: blogs
Should You Pay Attention to Body Image in 2020?
Body image is a concept that never seems to go away, no matter how far we progress. It seems to be human nature to judge people on the way they look, thus creating an atmosphere of negativity and influencing the feelings of others.
I think no matter what, we are always going to pay attention to our own body image, but it’s time that we learn to do so in a more positive manner. Younger generations find themselves on the internet more often these days, paying attention to the way celebrities or models look, and so they try to mimic this as they are conditioned to think that bodies we see on television or online are norm...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Umer Bilal Tags: confidence featured happiness health and fitness psychology self-improvement body image body positivity Source Type: blogs
