A toxic relationship (0)
3/17/10 •
I’ve heard that “the eating disorder is like a bad boyfriend.” I guess that in this context, referring to the eating disorder as “Ed” makes a lot of sense. The boyfriend analogy aside, the eating disorder does fall under the category of “toxic relationship.” Just look at how relevant the 10 steps are…
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My very non-scientific stages of recovery eating (5)
3/15/10 •
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 sucks and [...]
Denial: Not exclusive to addiction (7)
2/26/10 •
Dr. Drew made a comment a couple of episodes back (Ep. 306 “Triggers”) that I was pretty surprised to hear:
“Addiction is the only disease that you have to convince people that they have.”
I highly disagree with this statement, and think that denial is a large part of many mental illnesses… and even some physical illnesses. [...]
When in a hole… (13)
1/27/10 •
Everyone has heard the phrase about things having to get worse before getting better. However, it doesn’t say MAKE things worse so that they can get better. It doesn’t exactly work like that. I see a couple of different situations where people “try to get out of the eating disorder by going [further] into their eating disorder”:
Eating disorder math (1)
1/26/10 •
If I were apply this study, called “How Brain Cells Deal with Mathematic Rules,” to eating disorders… it would be titled, “How Brain Cells Deal with Eating Disorder Rules.” :
Intelligent behavior requires strategic processing of numbers and abstract quantity information in accordance with internally maintained goals. For instance, we typically adopt a “less than” strategy [...]
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