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Aug 13, 2011, 6:51 pm
Laura from “Eating With Your Anorexic” posted something the other day, that I just HAD to comment on:
Something new is happening in eating disorders. The voice of eating disorder patients is less stereotyped, more empowered, and less victimized. Why? I attribute the changes to two separate but ... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2011, 10:33 pm
Although I think that the relationship between eating disorders and infertility is pretty well-established, what makes this article (Eating disorders delay pregnancy) interesting is the contrast between planned and unplanned pregnancies:
Study findings:
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Aug 2, 2011, 9:42 am
There was a post on Lifehack the other day called, “3 Reasons Why Shame is Your Friend.” I saw that headline and of course HAD to read it. It turns out it’s the third in a series, after “Why Fear is Your Friend” and “Why Sadness is Your Friend.” How many times have we talked about... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2011, 9:59 pm
In case you missed it (like I did), the new season of Celebrity Rehab began a couple of weeks ago. I’m just now catching up, and in the process of trying to watch everything on VH1.com, ran across a blog post about Drew Pinsky and his interview in GQ magazine.
When Vargas-Cooper asks Pinsky if p... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 10:13 pm
Dr. Walter Vandereycken did a really interesting study on how both professionals and patients viewed dropping out from eating disorder treatment. It’s something that I’ve definitely observed (patients and staff having different takes on why someone leaves treatment), but I never really thought ... Comment - Like
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Jun 13, 2011, 9:00 am
Recently, I blogged about medialization and medicalization in regards to “the spread of a mental disorder.” In continuation with that theme, I wanted to go a little further and talk about the role of social media in medialization (not to sound redundant or anything…).
Before proceeding, I sh... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 11:59 pm
I’ve recently been inspired by Dr. Walter Vandereycken and his research on eating disorders. In his article “Media Hype, Diagnostic Fad or Genuine Disorder? Professionals’ Opinions About Night Eating Syndrome, Orthorexia, Muscle Dysmorphia, and Emetophobia,” he presents a great point:
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May 27, 2011, 9:14 am
In case you missed the first post, I joined an ED blogger book club that’s reading “Eating in the Light of the Moon.” This week is Chapter 2: The Buried Moon – Rediscovering the Feminine. Also, I think I failed to mention this last time, but I skip all the fables (or whatever you want to... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2011, 10:46 pm
Recently, a couple of girls started a blogger book club. Since my book club in “real life” has turned into a wine club for women who like to read, I was pretty excited about the idea. It’s like group book analysis. Group psych book analysis. The only way it could be more up my alley were i... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2011, 8:20 pm
This afternoon, my husband and I went and saw the movie “Everything Must Go.” In general, I’m not much of a movie watcher. It’s funny how I can watch a House marathon all day, but run out of patience about 2/3rds of the way through a film. Anyway, when I heard the movie had Will Ferrel... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 8:42 pm
Carrie beat me to posting about this Grey’s Anatomy quote:
After a trauma, your body is at its most vulnerable. Response time is critical. So you’re suddenly surrounded by people—doctors, nurses, specialists, technicians—surgery is a team sport. Everyone pushing for the finish line. Putting... Comment - Like
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May 8, 2011, 2:19 pm
In no particular order…
I don’t want to — My persoal favorite. My therapist usually refuse it with something equally as thoughtful, like “yeah, no kidding.”
I’m not sick enough -- Everyone (yes, everyone) has used this excuse at some point. Other variations include:
I’m not thin e... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2011, 4:14 pm
Several years ago, I had a therapist who called herself “a recovering perfectionist.” While I thought that was clever, it wasn’t really something that I personally wanted to strive for. Sure, perfectionism can be hugely problematic and maladaptive… but I think that on many levels, perfec... Comment - Like
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Apr 29, 2011, 1:48 pm
The line, “You are a human being, not a human being,” would be on my “top 10 overused phrases in therapy” list (were such a list to exist). However, this concept was the first thing to come to mind when I was reading the article, The Reward of Doing “Something”:
People have this inclina... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2011, 12:43 am
It seems that this year, Glee is all about morals. On the whole, I’m not sure I love this aspect of the show, but tonight’s episode was on self-love, and I sure have a lot of thoughts on that.
I think I’m going to have to break my thoughts up into several posts, so let’s start with Emma an... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2011, 6:35 pm
Recently, my therapist started leading a group that I’m in. Most people who’ve done any kind of intense treatment (inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, etc), have probably had this experience (myself included) but it’s pretty rare that my therapist now eithe... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2011, 9:38 pm
I’ve been reading a lot of articles this week on pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. As someone who has unsuccessfully tried way too many medications, this is really interesting to me. It’s no secret that individuals often have to try several psychotropic medications to find one tha... Comment - Like
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Mar 1, 2011, 10:11 pm
Many months ago, there was an awesome cartoon on Therapy Tales that I have been dying to expand upon. It starts like this:
I’ve often thought about what my therapist would say were I to tell her about my blog. I bet she’d be thinking something like the following (note: I am NOT the artist tha... Comment - Like
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Feb 28, 2011, 9:18 pm
I’m a sucker for lists… especially top-10 lists. So, when I saw a post on the Top 10 Cracks That Addicts Fall Through on Their Way to Recovery, it had my name all over it.
I think that a lot of the same principles that Mark Goulston points out can apply to mental illness in general. A few of ... Comment - Like
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Feb 20, 2011, 8:51 pm
Today officially marks the start of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I’m glad that there IS a week dedicated to eating disorder awareness, although I confess that I’ve never been much of a participant.
There’s lots of great stuff out there this week, and this afternoon I stumbled up... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2011, 8:14 pm
I’ve recently started watching Grey’s Anatomy again. I got behind (really behind) and always thought I would catch up… but it hasn’t happened, so I’m just going to have to go back and watch the last season at some point. That might not happen for awhile, though, so I’m just picking up ... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2011, 2:32 pm
I watch a lot of medical television (if you haven’t noticed), so when I saw the What Your TV Habits May Say About Your Fear Of Crime article this morning, I was pretty interested to read about the connection between TV viewing and personal beliefs:
From the article:
The more frequently people wa... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2011, 8:04 pm
Lately Portia de Rossi’s book, “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain” has received a lot of attention. While I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I have probably read a dozen articles reviewing it. In fact, I think I’m the only one who hasn’t read the book.
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Jan 19, 2011, 9:15 pm
Sometimes I think that blankets should be banned in group therapy. I understand that:
group rooms can be cold
body image is tough and it’s easier to hide behind a blanket
blankets are comfy
therapy can suck
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Oct 27, 2010, 7:47 am
Those of you who’ve been around the blogosphere for awhile have probably heard of NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. I personally think the word “blog” should be in there somewhere… NaBloNoWriMo? Doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Anyway, NaNoWriMo is an annual event where lots ... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2010, 8:36 am
A little background info….
My husband and I have a 4-year old terrier. I used to say that he was like our kid, until I realized that my friends with kids didn’t really like my aligning our dog to their child. Someday we want to have kids — but not yet. For now, our dog is enough of a ha... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2010, 7:27 am
{fade to the vultures sitting on a dead tree}
Buzzy: Hey, Flaps, what we gonna do?
Flaps: I don’t know. What you wanna do?
Ziggy: I got it! Let’s flap over to the east side of the jungle! They’ve always got a bit of action, a bit of a swinging scene. All right?
Buzzy: Ah, come off it! ... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2010, 7:45 pm
Laura had such a great blog post today on the relationship between eating disorder professionals and their patients:
A doctor I admire wrote something on an ED message board this week: “You do not need to be the patient’s friend, or confidant, and you shouldn’t be someone she wants to bring h... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2010, 11:21 pm
Since I’m taking this quote so out of context, I feel like I should provide some background. From the episode recap on tv.com:
House notices Jeff (the patient) and is intrigued by the fact that Jeff is unceasingly nice. He calls in the team to diagnose Jeff, but they’re skeptical that anythin... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 10:17 pm
I’ve been in an outpatient eating disorders group for awhile now. There’s nothing special about it — it’s just a weekly / bi-weekly group at a treatment center, with women of all ages and ED diagnoses Everyone either has to be in outpatient therapy at the center or have done some kind of i... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2010, 1:00 am
In anticipation of the third season of “In Treatment” starting this fall, I’ve been “re-watching” season one. I say “re-watching” because I never finished watching it in the first place. When I first started watching the show, I would watch one patient at a time — week one through... Comment - Like
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Jul 20, 2010, 8:05 pm
Over the weekend, I had my first experience with Panera’s new calorie-labelled menus. Honestly, I order the same couple of things every time, so the menus may have been there for a couple of weeks and I just haven’t noticed. Regardless, I was a little shocked to see them.
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Jul 5, 2010, 3:48 pm
Several weeks ago I wrote a post — that I never published — titled, “I need an iPad for recovery.” I never posted it since it was really more of a plee to my husband than anything else. However, lately there seems to have been a lot of negative press about eating disorder... Comment - Like
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Jun 22, 2010, 10:49 am
There have been 100 (or so it seems) articles published in the last week about pro-eating disorder websites. It’s not a new phenomenon. I think it was in 2001 that Yahoo removed “pro-anorexia” sites hosted on their servers? More recently, it’s been an ongoing battle on facebo... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2010, 2:49 pm
I’ve been traveling a lot these past few months, and on a recent trip I read the book, “The Pocket Therapist.” My husband did give me a “oh come on, you can’t be serious” look when I pulled it out to read on the plane, but I really do highly recommend it — ... Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2010, 8:33 pm
When I saw an ED study with “All Better?” in the title, I of course had to read it. Often when a friend or my husband asks me how an appointment was, I say “I’m cured!” Maybe I’ll switch it up with “All better” in the future. Anyway, this was a g... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2010, 9:54 pm
If any of you are familiar with Agile development, you’ve probably heard of the focus factor (or productivity factor). It’s used for planning to help determine how many “real hours” you have to work on something. It’s the difference between “real hours” ... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2010, 12:04 pm
I’m not usually a quote person, but I ran across this one today:
Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness. – Ram Dass
As someone who’s struggled with an eating disorder for longer than I would like to admit, I’ve definitely had periods of ... Comment - Like
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May 9, 2010, 8:38 pm
The other day, a friend and I were playing the “which professional on Celebrity Rehab would you be?” game. You know… kind of like “which Sex & the City character are you most like?” or “who would you want as your partner on Dancing with the Stars?” —... Comment - Like
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Apr 24, 2010, 10:17 pm
Note (05/02/2010): I’ve updated the mind-map to a) remove the typo and b) make it bigger for printing purposes. Click on the image to load the larger diagram.
It has occurred to me lately how often I say “I don’t know” in my appointments (possibly even more often than I sa... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 9:53 pm
I’m finally catching up on some of my “must read” articles. Tonight I got a chance to read an article on a new possible diagnostic system for eating disorders in the DSM-V. “Broad Categories for the Diagnosis of Eating Disorders (BCD-ED): An Alternative System for Classific... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2010, 8:13 pm
I heard this in a group:
A patient was saying that she used to have a lot of friends in college, but lost them after graduation. She hadn’t been able to make new ones because she was weird and no one liked her. When the therapist challenged that idea, she said that she had a personality d... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 10:10 pm
I stumbled upon this post today: You Deplete Me: 10 Steps to End a Toxic Relationship. It caught my attention because I have a friend who is in a horrible relationship, and now that he has read Codependent No More twice, I thought he could use some new reading. However, three paragraphs into the a... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2010, 8:48 pm
Recently, my friend and I were discussing the pros/cons of her stepping up the level of care in her treatment. Interestingly, “eating in program” was on both the pro and con list. She thinks it’s easier to eat while in program (as opposed to on your own), but that some of the food ... Comment - Like
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