If you or a loved one are thinking about seeking bulimia treatment during a holiday, you may be wondering if the holidays are a good time to enter treatment. Here are a few considerations: 1. Admissions tend to be low. During the various holiday season, admissions into eating disorder recovery programs tend to be low. [...]
Binge-Eating Disorder (BED) is was not officially recognized by the psychological community until added to the 5th version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 2013 (DSM-V). BED is distinguished by recurring behaviors of [1]: Eating large amounts of food in one sitting A sense of loss of control while bingeing Feelings of shame and [...]
Contributor: Staff at Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center Valentine’s Day can be a tough time of year for anyone, especially if you are single, recently went through a divorce, or lost a loved one. But the holiday can cause a lot of pressure to be on the receiving end of someone’s love and affection — [...]
Hello there, everyone. There is an unacceptable and disastrous trend when it comes to eating disorders in the LGBTQ+ community. This affects the community both by suffering from a multitude of hardships that drive individuals towards eating disorders and by being barred from the treatment that would save them. This is a real and life-threating [...]
Christian Content Track For Christians, the power of the Christmas story is that hope lies with a baby born in a farmhouse to a young woman 2,000 years ago. Charles Wesley, in his well-known Christmas hymn, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, bids us to join the angels as they proclaim Jesus’ incarnation: Christ by highest heav’n [...]
Our culture is constantly chasing the concept of instant gratification. In fact, this is one of the factors that make an individual vulnerable to developing disordered eating patterns as a “quick fix” to achieve a certain appearance or resolve personal or mental health challenges. But, eating disorder recovery is not a “quick fix”. It is this [...]
Many of us know the main eating disorder diagnoses – anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. However, beyond these, there are many disordered eating behaviors and potential diagnoses such as Night Eating Syndrome (NES) that are described under the “Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder” category of the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and [...]
Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Given the physical, psychological, and social transformations that are characteristic of adolescence, it is not uncommon for a teen to experience temporary challenges related to healthy or appropriate emotion regulation strategies. For teenage girls who have developed anorexia nervosa or a depressive disorder, the likelihood that they [...]
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a mental health treatment methodology that has been around since psychologist Marsha Linehan developed it in the 1980s to treat Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Over time, it has become clear that this treatment is effective at treating BPD and so many other mental illnesses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a twist on [...]
The research is clear that the concepts of self-image and self-view are absolutely related to eating disorders. Self-image refers to the way that we view ourselves, our personality, our appearance, and our choices and how this impacts our self-view and role in the world. It is not surprising, then, that eating disorders and self-image are interconnected, [...]
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