Tag: anorexia
When Treatment Makes You Sick: The Eating Disorder Clinic
Eight years after beginning ātreatmentā for an āeating disorderā, I was eating worse than ever. Yet three years after quitting that ātreatmentā, food is a pleasure, not a problem.
Suicide Prevention and Service Failure in the U.K.
It's really hard to talk about suicide. We are constantly constrained by the notion that our mental health is our individual responsibility to manage, told to ālive our best livesā by a never-ending campaign of exploitative wellness fads. A more collective conversation is needed.
Childhood Emotional Abuse Associated with Internal Eating Disorder Voice
Many individuals diagnosed with eating disorders describe and internal āvoice,ā which may be linked to experiences of childhood trauma and dissociation.
Is Binge Eating Disorder Just Another Made-Up Disease?
If a person binges habitually, upon sensing certain stimuli the pancreas prepares the body with insulin, and simultaneously, the stomach prepares by getting more acidic. This means that for many of us, the drive to binge is a physical need. Therapy blames the patient for ābad copingā when all she is doing is responding to her body's signals.
To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
FromĀ The Atlantic: The new Netflix filmĀ To the Bone, which tells the story of a woman's struggle with anorexia, reflects our culture's morbid fascination and...
“I Didnāt Believe I had an Eating Disorder. But the Threat...
In this opinion piece for STAT,Ā Carrie Arnold wades into the ethical debate over forced treatment in a case that "has set off a firestorm...
The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative
Psychiatry assumes that individuals who meet its vague criteria for anorexia nervosa have a disease, and the "disease-causing problem" resides in the genome. If we wish to understand what motivates individuals who systematically under-nourish themselves, however, we need to do two things: Abandon the empty, disempowering psychiatric labels, and recognize that it is through the uniqueness of each individual that we come to understand his or her perspective, and second, we need to sit down with the individual in a spirit of trust and collaboration, and listen to his or her concerns.