Coping Strategies
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More insights are coming as I do the prewriting and thinking for my eating disorder recovery book. Here's what feels like a big one for me today.
So many people call, write and share their pain and frustration in finding their way out of their eating disorder and into a life of freedom. In looking for various structures that will hold what I want to say in this book I came upon the basic and familiar outline of a classic play. A classic play consists of Act I, Act II, Act III.
The plea for help from a bewildered and frightened person struggling to find release and recovery from an eating disorder, in my immediate way of thinking, comes from Act II. We can't skip Act II. And just about any playwright will tell you Act II always gives the writer, the producer and the director trouble. Are you in Act II of your recovery?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 03 September 2009 20:26 |
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Medindia, a networking of health blog, continues the discussion about pro anorexia and pro bulimia blogs and websites. Descriptions of these sites may help raise awareness about the depth of commitment some people have to maintaining their eating disorders and “perfecting” their destruction behaviors even to the point of death.
Power of Fear - However, most mental health clinicians and parents now appreciate that fear tactics, logic and loving concern do not alter a person’s dedication to their eating disorder.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 March 2009 16:03 |
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Watch out for mind tricks that convince you that cleansing is normal when it is a purging symptom of a real and present eating disorder.
The Mind Trick
Suppose you eat, binge often or occasionally and don't throw up.You can convince yourself that are not bulimic and that you do not have an eating disorder. Therefore you don't need treatment. In fact, you don't need to change or heal from anything.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 14:42 |
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Sudden anorexia recovery efforts can be as shocking to the body as well as the mind. Here is one woman’s recovery story presented via our correspondence. She gave me permission to post our dialogue on my blog in hopes that our exchange would help you. (Her name is changed and her city is omitted.)
Hello Joanna, I found your website online and was hoping that you could help me. I struggled in silence with anorexia for 8 years.
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Last Updated on Friday, 03 July 2009 15:54 |
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Young Man Seeks Help for His Anorexic Girlfriend A young man wrote asking how to help the woman he loves. She is anorexic. They've been together for a little over a year. He says one good thing about the situation is that she is aware of her condition and has begun to talk with him about it. He is combing the Internet and bookstores reading hundreds of stories and medical write-ups about eating disorders and anorexia in particular. He says he feels that the more information he has the better he can behave toward his girl. I'm trying here to give you the message and the tone of his letter without giving you his exact words. Those words belong to him. But the message within his words applies to many young men (and not so young men) who are in a relationship with an anorexic woman.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 14:45 |
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