Suzanne looks at a clients entire life history to help define treatment options
Category: Eating Disorders
Oct 06 2012
Eating Disorder Treatment: Physiological Causes of Eating Disorders – Vol. 145, April 19, 2012
Over the years that I have been working with eating disorders it has been obvious that these clients have a very poor idea of how detect the normal bodily cues such as when they are hungry or full, have inability to sense their weight, as well as not having a clear idea of what their …
Aug 21 2012
Diane Keaton Battled Bulimia for Five Years – Vol. 130, Dec. 15, 2011
The 1977 film Annie Hall introduced me to the actress Diane Keaton. In her new biography Then Again Keaton tells the story of the start of her bulimic behavior, though she didn’t think of it in that way back then. It was 1968, she was 22 years old, a struggling actress just cast in the …
Jul 27 2012
Why Katie Upton should model swimsuits for women
Vol. 159, July 28, 2012 One needs to ask the question why it is necessary for one female to pick on another female’s body as the blogger of “Skinny Girl” has done. She goes as far as to call Kate Upton a “ little piggy. ”This because of this bloggers notion that Miss Upton has …
Jun 22 2012
Let’s Stop Labeling People
Labeling people with psychiatric illnesses can create not only the lack of a sense of self, worse, it never allows one to move past the notion of having a mental illness. I have found in my work that many people who were labeled with mental illnesses that the psychiatric community felt were to be managed, never to be healed have been able to heal themselves of these problems. This article speaks to how this was done in the case of an anorexic.
May 25 2012
Moral of Amy Winehouse’s Fight With Manic Depression & Addiction – VOL. 111, June 28, 2011
Amy Winehouse had a very complex medical history according to the reports that in the news. What is the moral of to be learned here regarding the loss of this very talented yet fragile star? Looking deeper into her history, mental illness was what brought on the behavior that lead to her untimely death as seems to be the case in many cases of these too early deaths.