What Coping Tools Work for My Eating Disorder and Anxiety?

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Woman throwing leaves to Focus on Life Coping skills are helpful in the recovery process. When someone with anorexia nervosa has a comorbid diagnosis of anxiety, often the phrase ‘coping skills’ can seem unhelpful. While working with your therapist, it is important to remember that how you cope with your symptoms can determine the rate of your progress while in treatment. Coping [...]
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Identifying Co-Occurring Depression in Teens with EDs

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Teen with an eating disorder on a trail Adolescents experiencing an eating disorder (ED) are often diagnosed with co-occurring mood disorders, particularly depression. In fact, research estimates that 23-48% of adolescents with an ED have comorbid depression [1]. Additionally, approximately 11% of adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN), and 50% with bulimia nervosa (BN) will experience depressive symptoms in conjunction with their ED symptoms. [...]
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Electrolyte Issues From Bulimia – Knowing the Warning Signs

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electrolytes Electrolytes like calcium, sodium, and potassium help your body transmit electrical impulses, and they move from cell to cell through fluids in your tissues. If your hydration levels rise or fall dramatically, you could develop electrolyte issues.[1] Unfortunately, this is common in people with bulimia. Almost half of all people with bulimia have electrolyte imbalances.[2] [...]
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ED Examination Questionnaire Adolescents Validity Questioned

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Adolescent Girl with school books To properly treat eating disorders (EDs), clinicians must use the best tools for every population. Researchers are continually working to ensure that every questionnaire, test, and treatment involved in ED identification, rehabilitation, and recovery is effective and evidence-based. Through this research, a recent study has found that what is “possibly the most widely used self-report [...]
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BED and Depression: The Dangers of Self-Medicating with Food

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College girl smiling into the camera Depression commonly occurs alongside those struggling with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and the combination of the two can have long-standing consequences. Researchers and clinicians have explored the relationship between both disorders, looking at causality, directionality, and symptomology, and have found that binge eating often develops as an avoidant coping mechanism that distracts from feelings of [...]
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Why Amazon’s Pro-Anorexia Sweatshirt Shows a Larger Problem

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Amazon box Contributor: Jessica Masbaum, LCSW, Therapist and Clinical Lead, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center. This past week, Amazon came under fire for the sale of a pro-anorexia sweatshirt from vendor “ArturoBuch” that reads “Anorexia: Like Bulimia, except with self-control [1].” It should be clear why the message of this sweatshirt is offensive and harmful, yet, there were [...]
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Experiential Therapies for Bulimia Nervosa Treatment

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Woman with binge eating disorder seated by the river Contributor: Melissa O’Neill, LCSW, Director of Program Development at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Experiential treatment is one that uses actions, movements, and activities in the therapeutic process to promote healing from eating disorders. It encourages individuals to bring awareness to their body and sensations, identify and address unresolved issues through the use of role-playing, [...]
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