What does the eating disorder steal from your holidays?
1. Time spent with friends and family
2. Holiday spirit
3. The world outside of treatment
4. Holiday food
5. Almost a whole season of the year that’s different from any other time

Some interesting thoughts on truth vs. lies from two of my favorite philosophers — Mark Twain and Gregory House.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t need to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
“I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.”
“It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”
“I’ve found that when you want to know the truth about someone that someone is probably the last person you should ask.”
– Gregory House

So, while everyone lies sometimes, people struggling with an eating …

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 interacting elements: the cross-pollination of the Internet, and the shifting narratives of the treatment community.
Before the Internet, our exposure to literature about eating disorders was limited to the few books that happened to be on the bookstore shelves that year and the occasional …

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 inclination to do more, even if what they do is trivial.
Experiments have shown that the desire for activity is quite strong; people will go to a lot of trouble to maintain their desired level of activity, which can …

NaNoWriMo is an annual event where lots of people commit to writing/blogging a mini-novel in November (50,000 words). I encourage any (or all) of you to participate and write about some of your struggles. Participating in NaNoWriMo is a fun way to increase mental health awareness. Not only that, but it’s a good personal challenge. I wrote a post a few years ago on the importance of blogging about mental health, and gave…

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.
I’ve been trying to figure out what it is that bothers me about having them there.  I’ve looked up the nutrition facts a hundred times, so it’s not like I’m seeing the calorie count for the first time.  Plus, I still ordered …

I’m going to avoid diving into labeling theory… but I think that diagnoses are ultimately meant to guide treatment. You’re really saying “here are a cluster of common symptoms” so that you can research and treat individuals with those characteristics. It’s not adequate to just describe someone as being sad, because the other presenting symptoms make a huge difference.

As of today, we are greythinking.com!  The original address, greythinking.wordpress.com, will continue to work, as will all of the original posts and links.  I figured it was about time that I got a “real” domain, though.
If anyone has problems with their RSS feeds (though you shouldn’t), let me know….

…. for my absence these past several months.  a LOT has been going on in my life (thankfully mostly good things!) that have prevented me from having any free time… however, I AM back – and with a lot to say!  (some things never change).  so stay tuned…

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve added a poll to Grey Thinking’s sidebar (on the front page of the blog). I’ve thought about doing polls before, and while this one is not particularly creative, it is something that I’ve been wondering — how did you find out about GT?
I promise that future polls will be more interesting….
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