Coping With Relapses in Bulimia Recovery
Relapses are discouraging, but are a normal part of the recovery process. They offer the opportunity for both learning and strengthening recovery. (Source: About.com Eating Disorders)
Source: About.com Eating Disorders - December 10, 2015 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: health Source Type: news
Food, the Holidays & the Truth about Eating Disorders
Think about your favorite holiday food. Maybe pecan pie, maybe roast beef, maybe stuffing, maybe sugar cookies. Let’s say you are hungry. Think about eating that food right now. Do you feel excitement? Pleasure? Anxiety? Internal conflict? Guilt? Are you thinking about the calories? The grams of fat? Carbs? Whether you exercised enough today and are allowed to eat it?
If you ate this food, how long would your feelings about it last? Would you feel guilt all day? Would the anxiety about eating it linger and affect your mood? Would you feel fat or uncomfortable in your own skin?
Think about your friends or family memb...
Source: Psych Central - December 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Danielle B. Grossman, MFT Tags: Addictions Anorexia Binge Eating Bulimia Diet & Nutrition Disorders Eating Disorders General Healthy Living Holiday Coping Phobias Psychology Weight Loss Anxiety dieting dinner with the family eating too much Fear Food Source Type: news
Pain of growing up with a size 8 mum when you’re size 14 revealed
Daisy Buchanan, 30, was always jealous of her mother's figure. Anne, 56, is a size eight whereas Daisy has been a size 14 from age 12. As a teenager Daisy developed bulimia because of this. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bullies May Face Higher Odds of Eating Disorders
Risk of anorexia or bulimia significantly higher than for kids not involved in bullying
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Bullying, Eating Disorders (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - November 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How 'The Sopranos' Execs Helped Jamie-Lynn Sigler Realize She Had An Eating Disorder
It's been 10 years since Jamie-Lynn Sigler went public with her painful history of exercise bulimia, but in a Monday conversation with HuffPost Live, the actress reflected further on that trying time, sharing that the staff of her HBO series "The Sopranos" were instrumental in bringing the disorder to her attention. "'The Sopranos' was a big thing, because they had asked me to put on weight," she recounted. "They were concerned, I think, for my health, but [also], they just didn't feel I was the picture of a girl that lived in an Italian household that ate pasta all the time, so they were big catalysts in me taking a step ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study finds surprising links between bullies and eating disorders
Contact: Samiha Khanna Phone: 919-419-5069 Email: samiha.khanna@duke.edu
DURHAM, N.C. -- Being bullied in childhood has been associated with increased risk for anxiety, depression and even eating disorders. But according to new research, it’s not only the victims who could be at risk psychologically, but also the bullies themselves.
Researchers at Duke Medicine and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine were surprised to find that in a study of 1,420 children, those who bullied others were twice as likely to display symptoms of bulimia, such as bingeing and purging, when compared to children who are not invo...
Source: DukeHealth.org: Duke Health Features - November 16, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Duke Medicine Source Type: news
Full: How I Learned to Satisfy My Insatiable Hunger & Feed My Soul
Kimber Simpkins, writing about her long struggle with anorexia, explains why she has banished any sign of a scale from her home. “Perhaps I don’t trust myself not to become obsessed by it,” she writes, “like a recovering alcoholic not keeping booze around. Perfectly sensible, really. For years, if I saw a scale peeking out from under the sink in someone’s bathroom, a creepy feeling came over me, as if it were whispering, Kimber, look at me, I’m right here under the sink. You could pull me out and step on me for just a second. It won’t hurt a bit. Come on, just one little step? You know you want to.”
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Source: Psych Central - November 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Megan Riddle Tags: Anorexia Binge Eating Book Reviews Bulimia Diet & Nutrition Eating Disorders General Personal Stories Women's Issues books on anorexia books on eating disorders eating disorder memoirs full full book full book on hunger full Source Type: news
Trigger Warnings: The Good, the Bad, the Pancakes
Seven years ago, I would start at least one day of the week by running to IHOP. IHOP is not at all close to my house. But I really like pancakes, so to afford myself the caloric intake of two pancakes with a tiny smear of butter and a tablespoon of syrup, I would run. Many miles. For two pancakes. Pancakes are a trigger for me -- but only IHOP pancakes. Also In-Shape fitness, the gym I went to every day. My bike. Lululemon running shorts. Scales. Mirrors. Tape measures. The trigger-worthy experiences started well before the pancakes. When I was 9, I was physically and verbally abused by my stepfather, and in the years ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Is childhood trauma associated with lifetime suicide attempts in women with bulimia nervosa? - Smith CE, Pisetsky EM, Wonderlich SA, Crosby RD, Mitchell JE, Joiner TE, Bardone-Cone A, le Grange D, Klein MH, Crow SJ, Peterson CB.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the association between specific forms of childhood abuse and neglect with lifetime suicide attempts in women with bulimia nervosa (BN). METHODS: Two hundred and four women aged 18-65 (mean 25.6 ye... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 19, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
How Bulimia Affects Your Body
Bulimia nervosa is a disease in which a person overeats (binges) and repeatedly purges to compensate for the binge. As such, medical complications are common and sometimes deadly. Learn more about the complications people with bulimia are at risk for developing. (Source: About.com Eating Disorders)
Source: About.com Eating Disorders - October 13, 2015 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: health Source Type: news
What is Interpersonal Therapy for Eating...
Learn more about interpersonal therapy and how it works to help treat eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. (Source: About.com Eating Disorders)
Source: About.com Eating Disorders - October 11, 2015 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Tags: health Source Type: news
5 things parents should know about eating disorders
Dr. Sara Forman, director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Outpatient Eating Disorders Program, and Dr. Tracy Richmond, director of the PREP weight management program in Adolescent Medicine, share five things parents should know about eating disorders.
Kids don’t have to be really thin to have an eating disorder.
Not everyone with an eating disorder looks like he or she has an eating disorder. The condition is often hidden in secret habits or obsessions. For example, binge eating and bulimia — or binging and purging — are common eating disorders not necessarily associated with thinness.
Eating disord...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 6, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: All posts Mental health Teen health anorexia anorexia nervosa bulimia Dr. Sara Forman Dr. Tracy Richmond eating disorder Source Type: news
Kaiser Permanente, Mount Sinai to study Noom app for eating disorder treatment
Wellness app maker Noom will work with both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital in New York and Kaiser Permanente on a 12-week, 200-person trial of a new mobile health app for eating disorders called Noom Monitor, according to a new posting on ClinicalTrials.gov. Noom picked up an NIH grant to develop […] (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - September 22, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jonah Comstock Tags: Provider Uncategorized binge eating bulimia eating disorders Icahn School of Medicine Kaiser Permanente Mount Sinai Hospital Noom Noom Monitor Source Type: news
At What Age Are You Prone To An Eating Disorder?
Eating correctly is hard for all of us, but for some, the struggle is deadly. Severe over-eating or under-eating may lead to an eating disorder, a disease many of us have experience with, even if it is rarely diagnosed. We were so grateful to have Dr. Allegra Broft, a psychiatrist and professor at Columbia, on the show to educate us on the various types of eating disorders, and to let us know what we can do if a loved one needs help. Dangerous Adolescence The most dangerous and common age to experience an eating disorder is, according to Allegra, adolescence. Anorexia and bulimia are both common with this age group, due...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Are The Three Main Eating Disorders?
Eating correctly is hard for all of us, but for some, the struggle is deadly. Severe over-eating or under-eating may lead to an eating disorder, a disease many of us have experience with, even if it is rarely diagnosed. We were so grateful to have Dr. Allegra Broft, a psychiatrist and professor at Columbia, on the show to educate us on the various types of eating disorders, and to let us know what we can do if a loved one needs help. The three main types of eating disorders In the video above, Allegra explores the three main eating disorders, and speaks to their differences and similarities. Anorexia NervosaAllegra def...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
