Patient underfeeding in hospital settings is rife and particularly dangerous when a patient is actually admitted due to underfeeding in the first place...
Read moreExtreme Hunger Part 2: The Experience and Science
As with the ever-present fear that the metabolism “is broken” many in recovery experience the disconnections between hunger, physical fullness and emotional satiation and worry that the entire energy balance system is “broken” as well.
Read moreDepression in Recovery: Assessment, Treatment and Options
Our Western culture has a messianic focus on turning losers into winners. I reject outright this narrow dichotomy being used as a way to define the human condition...
Read moreExercise II: Insidious Activity
Some facets of eating disorder-driven behaviors are more socially reinforced than others and exercise is certainly perceived as a life-affirming, stress-relieving behavior that can have no down side.
Read morePhases of Recovery From An Eating Disorder Part 1
Part 1 of Phases of Recovery looks at what an eating disorder is, how it's identified and what the prognosis and outcomes are.
Read morePhases of Recovery From An Eating Disorder Part 2
Part 2 of Phases of Recovery providing you with some information on how to determine when an eating disorder is present.
Read morePhases of Recovery From An Eating Disorder Part 3
In part 3 of Phases of Recovery we review some risks, misdiagnoses and possible complications associated with the recovery process.
Read morePhases of Recovery From An Eating Disorder Part 4
Part 4 of the Phases of Recovery looks at the calorie intake guidelines in some depth and discusses the necessity of restorative eating.
Read morePhases of Recovery From An Eating Disorder Part 5
The Homeodynamic Recovery Method (HDRM) comprises four phases toward remission of an eating disorder: initial re-feeding, the neither/nor phase, the must-be-done-by-now phase, and the high-risk final phase.
Read moreEdema: The Bane (and Blessing) of the Recovery Process
Water retention. Massive water retention. Water retention that hurts. Water retention that aches. Water retention that makes you look pregnant...
Read moreExtreme Hunger 1: What Is It?
Extreme hunger is a common experience for almost everyone undergoing recovery from any kind of eating disorder. Next to the presence of edema (water retention), extreme hunger is one of the most anxiety-provoking elements of recovery.
Read moreOrthorexia Nervosa I: Women Laughing Alone with Salad
Like all good internet memes, you go to Know Your Meme to learn that an ironic appreciation for stock photography includes a lot of photos of women laughing alone with salad as well as women struggling to drink water and men laughing alone with fruit salad.
Read moreReproductive Health I: Fertility & Pregnancy
So in this post we’re going to look at recovery specifically through the lens of wanting to have children.
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