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Authoritative articles and resources to help navigate the complexities of behavioral health.
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Impulsive Vs Compulsive: What’s The Difference?
Impulsive and compulsive behaviors get used as if they mean the same thing, and the confusion matters more than it sounds. A person who acts on a sudden urge and a person who repeats a ritual to quiet their anxiety are doing two different things, for two different reasons. When mental illness and substance use…
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Eating Disorders, Transfer Addiction, and Body Image
When someone finishes treatment for an eating disorder, the family often hears the word “cured” and exhales. The reality is quieter and more complicated. Recovery can hold, and it can also shift shape. One compulsion sometimes recedes while another moves in to take its place. Clinicians call this transfer addiction, and understanding it is part…
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Societal Pressures Contribute to Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses, not lifestyle choices or vanity gone too far. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa involve real distortions in body image and self-worth, and they carry some of the highest mortality rates of any mental health condition. They affect women most often, though men develop them too. What pushes a vulnerable person…
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