Anorexia Stole My Childhood, and More
It was in fourth and fifth grade that I decided I didn’t want to grow up. I wanted to be the shortest in my classes, and I even walked around with bent knees to appear shorter. I remember competing with friends to see who could come closest to being able to fit our hands around our waists. I remember having a friend over and watching a Richard Simmons “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” exercise video and then having us both get on the scale to compare weights.
I was just a little girl and I don’t know where this idea came from. This was way back in the mid-90s when there were few resources for children ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: K.M. Capper Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Personal Body Image Source Type: blogs
Looking Back: My Advice on Starting Eating Disorder Recovery
I dial the number hastily written on a post-it note that I’ve had shoved in my wallet for two weeks. Sweat starts to bead on my palms as I wait for the line to ring. “Hello,” a soft spoken woman answers. “I’d like to make an appointment,” I utter as my voice shakes. “Okay, let’s do that,” she says as she trails off into a line of questions to see what exactly I need an appointment for and whether she’s the one to help me or not.
I’m in my thirties, a mother of three, with ten years of recovery under my belt. I thought all of this was behind me. But it crept back into my life when I had arrogantly ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vanna Winters Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Eating Disorders Personal Treatment Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 11th 2019
In conclusion, high-dose NR induces the onset of WAT dysfunction, which may in part explain the deterioration of metabolic health.
Towards a Rigorous Definition of Cellular Senescence
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/towards-a-rigorous-definition-of-cellular-senescence/
The accumulation of lingering senescent cells is a significant cause of aging, disrupting tissue function and generating chronic inflammation throughout the body. Even while the first senolytic drugs capable of selectively destroying these cells already exist, and while a number of biotech companies are working on the producti...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
GDF11 as a Calorie Restriction Mimetic
GDF11 was one of the first factors in blood identified as a possible explanation for the outcome of heterochronic parabiosis. When a young and old mouse have their circulatory systems joined, some aspects of aging reverse in the old mouse, and some aspects of aging are accelerated in the young mouse. GDF11 levels decline with age, and it was thought that increased levels of GDF11 provided by the young animal could act to improve function of cells and tissues in the older animal - though it was not well understood as to how GDF11 worked to produce these results.
Since then there has been some debate over whether or n...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 6, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Is Mental Illness a Made up Disorder?
In this episode, our hosts discuss whether or not mental illness is a real disorder or if it’s just something that medical and pharmaceutical companies made up to make a profit.
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“Instead of taking my psychiatric medications this morning, should I have just gone to yoga?” – Michelle Hammer
Highlights from ‘Mental Illness Made Up’ Episode
[2:00] Is mental illness real?
[4:00] Yoga doesn’t cure all mental illnesses, just like it wouldn’t cure cancer.
[16:00] Dealing with people who think mental illness is not real.
[19:30] Eating disorders are such a stigmatized menta...
Source: World of Psychology - August 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Brain and Behavior Disorders General Source Type: blogs
How My Weight Gain Contributed to My Son ’ s Disordered Eating
Ever since I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1991, I’ve struggled with my weight. At that time, I weighed 125 and was prescribed lithium to control my highs and lows. The drug worked, but it and other psychotropic drugs contributed to a 20-pound weight gain. Then, as the years went by, I gained the weight that comes with aging. By 40, I weighed about 180. On a 5’3″ frame, this was a lot to carry. I gained even more weight when I struggled with breast cancer in my late 40s and 50s. At 56, I weighed a cool 188 with no clothes on.
Recently, I gained even more (I contribute this gain to simply overindulgen...
Source: World of Psychology - July 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Anorexia Children and Teens Eating Disorders Habits Health-related Parenting Personal Adolescence Diet Food Addiction Lithium Weight Gain Source Type: blogs
5 Surprising Things Stress Can Do to Your Body
You're reading 5 Surprising Things Stress Can Do to Your Body, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
You just
got off a terrible meeting, your boss gave you an impossible deadline for the
next project, your team is pushing you to make extra hours, and you still need
to pick up the kids at school. Your body is in a “fight or flight response.”
Your stress levels are high, you feel your breath get quicker and even feel
your heart beating faster than usual. Although this is all a natural response
from your brai...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: annabelle Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement stress Source Type: blogs
The Impact of the Media ’s Glamorization of Drug Abuse on Mental Health
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We often hear about celebrities with addictions from various news outlets.
Addiction and mental health issues can affect anyone. In fact, about 19% of all U.S. adults have dealt or are currently dealing with a mental illness, according to a national survey held by SAMHSA in 2017.
The Role of Media in Drug Abuse
It has been shown that the media contributes to the stigma
of menta...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: NicoleClarke Tags: depression internet culture psychology self education self improvement celebrities with addictions celebrity overdoses role of media in drug abuse songs about drugs Source Type: blogs
Noa Pothoven Highlights VSED as Alternative to MAID
Noa Pothoven suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia for years. She tried to survive despite her psychological problems, but that was no longer possible.
Noa recently announced that she had stopped eating and drinking. When she died, her death was erroneously reported as having been through euthanasia. In fact, the Levenseind clinic in The Hague had denied her request. Instead, Noa hastened her death by VSED, a method commonly used when MAID or euthanasia is not available. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 11, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Exploring Feeding/Swallowing Disorders Versus Eating Disorders in Children
What would you say if a graduate student or clinical fellow asked you to explain the difference between a feeding/swallowing disorder and an eating disorder for pediatric patients? As a pediatric feeding and swallowing specialists, I answer this question with, “It’s complicated.”
Often, an overriding medical issue—such as gastrointestinal issues or poor oral strength and coordination due to prematurity—causes feeding and swallowing disorders. As medical issues resolve, feeding and swallowing issues can persist. And, over time, these issues could gradually change from medically based issues to increasingly behavi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jennifer WIlson Tags: Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia eating disorders Feeding Disorders Social Media Source Type: blogs
I Believe It ’ s Possible to Fully Recover from an Eating Disorder
When I first started struggling with food and body image at eight years old, I was convinced it would be a lifelong struggle. My days were spent getting on and off a scale more times than anyone could imagine and counting out my cornflakes before I’d even think of eating them. I felt that I was destined to be bound by my eating disorder forever.
However, at 22 years old, I am fully recovered from anorexia. There is some controversy in the mental health world about whether full recovery from an eating disorder is possible, and I wholeheartedly believe it is (in fact, I’m living proof). Eating disorder expert Carolyn Cos...
Source: World of Psychology - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Mental Health America Publishers Body Image recover from eating disorder Source Type: blogs
Living with Chronic Anorexia
It’s been two-thirds of my life that I have been listening to this harassment in my head. I’ve talked back, I’ve fought back, I’ve negotiated, and yet I still suffer. It’s like a permanently playing radio, sometimes louder, sometimes more quiet, but always there as the background sound of my life. It is exhausting, but not as exhausting as it is to try to turn it off and keep it off. Sadly, I’m just used to it now. It’s become so normalized that I don’t really recall what it’s like to not have it there, my chronic and badgering anorexia.
I know that it’s in my gen...
Source: World of Psychology - April 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: K.M. Capper Tags: Anorexia Eating Disorders Peer Support Personal Stigma Body Image chronic anorexia dieting Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa Source Type: blogs
A Film Review – I AM MARIS: Portrait of a Young Yogi
Managing Anorexia Nervosa by Her Own Hand
by September Williams, MD
“You are only as sick as the secrets you keep.” It’s a saying used in a wide variety of mental health self-help communities. The phrase is also the apt tag line for Laura VanZee Taylor’s profoundly emotive feature length 2018 documentary film, I AM MARIS (IAM). Taylor along with producer Ariana Garfinkeland— most importantly— the film’s artist-writer-protagonist Maris Degener, document the perpetual state of recovery required to quell manifestations of mental illness.… (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 21, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Art Featured Posts Media #IamMaris anorexia film yoga Source Type: blogs
A High Level Review of Medical Marijuana
This article isn ’t going to change your practice. Why am I reviewingBraun et al. ’s survey regarding oncologists’ beliefs, practices, and knowledge regarding medical marijuana use? 1. I went to a Willie Nelson concert and my clothes still reek of marijuana; 2. One of my palliative care fellows is interested in understanding Palliative Care clinicians ’ educational needs regarding marijuana; 3. I visited a dispensary in Pennsylvania where I was told medical marijuana treats diseases ranging from opioid addiction to headaches to nausea and vomiting (in pregnant woman). This annoyed me and I wanted to see what other ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 14, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: arnold marijuana oncology physician Source Type: blogs
