I am officially the LAST person to blog about this study, but my thoughts seem to be pointed in a different from the other posts that I’ve read.
The Psych Central article, “Half of Young Adults Have Mental Disorder,” states the following:
“A total of 45.8 percent of college students and 47.7 percent of young adults not in college met the criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder.
The most common disorders in college students were alcohol use disorders (20.4 percent) and personality disorders (17.7 percent), whereas those not in college most frequently …

“Holiday” and “reflection” go hand-in-hand for me. Actually, I think the equation is more like this:
holidays + remembering to be thankful + being at home + the annual family Christmas card photo = reflection.
Reflection might not be such a bad thing… but reflection leads to comparing. There is still the day-to-day comparing myself to others in my surrounding (although I think I’m getting better about this), but this time of year leads me to compare myself to former versions of myself.
I blame a lot of this on the …

This could have been such a great article, had the question just been tweaked a little bit. (Therapy Watch: Diving In – How quickly should you open up in therapy?) Rather than “How quickly should you open up in therapy?” I think that “How quickly do you open up in therapy?” Or, since the article paneled all therapists…. “How quickly do your patients open up in therapy?”
I think that there are few “shoulds” in therapy (although I can think of a lot of should-nots!), but I am curious to …

Half of Americans are dieting these days (not an official statistic) — and I can’t handle being around any of them. That rules out a lot of potential relationships! But really… I don’t handle being around dieting well. I don’t need anyone around me counting calories or skipping meals. Why? Because:
1. I’ve spent enough time in my life counting calories (and want those hours back!
2. It’s triggering
3. I feel guilty for eating more, weighing more, needing more, wanting more, thinking I deserve more, etc
4. Paranoia …

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 …

From a study on perfection and anorexia:
Levels of perfectionism stayed the same while eating disorder symptoms and psychiatric symptoms decreased during recovery. Levels of perfectionism were inversely related to duration of remission so that individuals that had short illness duration had lower levels of perfectionism at both follow-ups. Patients with initial high levels of perfectionism may be at risk for a long illness duration which we recommend clinicians to acknowledge.
I am personally very interested in “chronic anorexia” — which is a controversial topic, since some believe that all eating disorders …