This video touches on when we will get a meal plan, how one is put together, and how much say we have as one is created for us. What we learn is that it really depends on the level of care. If we are in a residential or hospital program there may not be that many choices and once you have chosen what to eat each day for that week [...]
The following list of eating disorder resources is from the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). Inclusion on this list is in no way an endorsement of these sites. The National Eating Disorders Association is not responsible for the informational content of these sites. Resources A-D: Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) A multidisciplinary professional organization that focuses on Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and related disorders. Also sponsors a newsletter [...]
This week’s video is just something that I would like to share with all of you. I realize that many of you have concerns when it comes to inpatient or residential treatment; what will it be like? What do they ask me when I call? What is it like when I get there? As well as many other questions about it and what we can expect when we finally decide we [...]
This week’s video is about sexual desire, libido and how our ED can affect it. I had to do some research on this because I had my assumptions, but I wanted to know what the data states. Just so you know, 45-50% of those suffering with AN (anorexia nervosa) and 35-40% of those suffering from bulimia nervosa, EDNOS, and binge eating disorder struggle with the loss of or decrease in [...]
This week’s video is to address many of the questions and concerns that I hear every day from all of you. That question is “why does it feel so bad when we finally start to try and get better?” To be honest, it is completely normal. Why is that? It is because we have been stuffing things and numbing out from things for a long time, and each one of [...]
This week’s video is a topic that many of you have asked me to cover. That is, what do we do when people we are not that close to us ask us about our eating disorder? Or even worse, they bug us about what we are eating, how we are eating or anything like that. I have always been so surprised by what people will say or ask of someone [...]
I wanted to create this video because I promised that would continue talking about self-harm and giving other tips and tricks to help better manage it. Before getting into the managing of our SH behaviors, I want to give another reason that people seem to suffer from self-harm so that we can better understand why we do what we do. That reason is our attachments to others. I know I [...]
So a few weeks ago I got a message from idranktheseawater (a vlogger on YouTube). She asked if I would ever be interested in doing a Skype interview and that because she usually focuses on self-harm and tourettes syndrome on her channel, that any ED information could be helpful to her subscribers. So we set up a time when we could both be online and here are the results!! I [...]
Before doing this week’s video, I wanted to share with you a little bit about myself. I know that I get many questions about how I know eating disorders and how long I have worked with people as well as if I myself have had an eating disorder. The truth is that I have not had an ED, but because I have worked in all levels of ED treatment for [...]
This week’s video covers a topic that I have received many questions about, and that is chewing and spitting out food. The questions usually focused on what type of damage could be done from this behavior, and to be honest I had to do some research to ensure that what I thought was actually supported by data. I found that there are many things that could be damaged by chewing [...]
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