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[ 12 Jun 2008 | 4 Comments ]
Wanting to Want to Recover

It’s no secret that many anorexics are ambivalent about recovery. I remember a period of time when I knew that recovery was the right answer… but I just really wasn’t ready. I wanted to want to recover. I think it’s a tough position to be in.. a very stagnant place to be in. Because you could be receiving treatment (I was inpatient at the time) but still not really feeling it. What do you do then?
This article is probably my second favorite article (my first …

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[ 7 Feb 2008 | 3 Comments ]
Better eating disorder diagnosis

My new FAVORITE article.
Diagnostic Crossover in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa:
Implications for DSM-V
(Am J Psychiatry 2008; 165:245–250)
I actually think this whole study was amazing and definitely recommend reading it if you can (and I’m always a skeptic, so this is rare that I’d say this).  That said, I don’t think that the study does much for defining, validating, or invalidating the ED-NOS diagnosis.
 I think that this is brilliant, and should be used for actual diagnosis… not just as a measure in this study:
The Eating Disorders Longitudinal Interval Follow-up Evaluation was …