Treatment for Eating Disorders: 4 Common Tips
Treatment for eating disorders is a multi-faceted process. It generally involves attention to all parts of one’s wellbeing and lifestyle, including therapy for the emotional aspects of the disorder, nutritional education, and family counseling. Treatment for eating disorders also commonly co-occurs with substance abuse treatment. While you may hear many pieces of advice during your […]
Understanding Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders, but there are many others. From binge eating to bulimia to anorexia, many women struggle with body image and self-esteem issues that lead to unhealthy eating patterns. Eating disorders don’t harm everyone in the same way, and adults and teens are often affected in different […]
Understanding Mental Illness in Women
Mental illness in women is something that used to be a taboo topic a few decades ago. Today, we know that mental illness affects men and women throughout the world. We know that mental illness affects people differently and that like other health conditions, men and women have different risks, symptoms, and even different treatments. […]
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week Highlights Need for Treatment
Mental health treatment is at the forefront of the news again thanks to this week being National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The mission of the founders of awareness week is “to ultimately prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.” A great aspect of […]
Christina Ricci Discusses Her Struggle With Anorexia
Anorexia nervosa is the deadliest of all the eating disorders that plagues our society today. It causes those who suffer from it to obsess about their weight and the amount of food they eat to no end. People with anorexia typically weigh far less than the recommended weight for someone of their age and height, […]
Eating Disorder Treatment and the Holidays
If your family is like so many others and has a large Thanksgiving, then you’ve almost certainly spent the last several days overindulging and eating until your stomach feels like it’s going to burst. That said, contrary to a popular and misinformed belief, eating too much at Thanksgiving, or any of the surrounding holidays, does […]
Anorexia and Addiction “Joined at the Hip”
Anorexia and addiction are common occurring dual diagnoses. Dual diagnosis occurs when someone has both a mental health disorder, as well as an alcohol or drug problem. These illnesses are referred to as co-occurring and have a track record of influencing the symptoms of one another greatly. Research suggests that up to 35 percent of […]
Compulsive Eating Not Like Other Eating Disorders
Compulsive eating is an eating disorder that, unlike anorexia and bulimia, affects both sexes in high proportion. It goes by several other names such as compulsive overeating and food addiction and is characterized by an individual who has an obsessive relationship with food. Sufferers tend to be overweight as a result of their uncontrollable eating […]
Eating Disorder Treatment
Eating disorder treatment is something that every quality drug and alcohol treatment facility should provide due to the frequency eating disorders occur with addiction. An additional dual diagnosis, eating disorders and substance abuse can be so intertwined that they will often feed off of each other and exacerbate the other’s symptoms. The most important thing […]
Binge Eating Disorder & Addiction
Binge eating is something that almost everyone is guilty of doing at some point during their lives. Whether it’s having a second or third helping of food during the holidays, or pigging out at an all-you-can-eat buffet, we’ve all overeaten and paid the price with overly full bellies and stomach aches. However, binge eating disorder […]