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I'm concerned about making patients suffering from eating disorders a source of entertainment. It must be possible to offer "the possibility to see food-based issues in a new light" without exposing vulnerable people to a massive television audience.
In psychotherapy the patient knows she can say just about anything, and her psychotherapist will hold the confidentiality. Statements, actions and expressions that the patient might find shocking and embarrassing after recovery are left to disappear after the fact. She doesn't have reminders because of television reruns or youtube clips. She doesn't get letters from strangers. Her face isn't recognized on the street or on Facebook. She's free to start her new life in recovery unencumbered.
Throughout my career as a psychotherapist I've been privy to many secrets and sensitive information, I've grown more convinced that the work between patient and psychotherapist takes place in a form of sacred space where respect and trust allows the patient to say anything. Her freedom from fear or judgment is crucial in allowing recovery to build and replace illness. This can't happen when treatment is televised.
What do you think?
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I'm in Taos, New Mexico getting introduced to the Taos Plateau Volcanic Field. As I explore the rocks and learn how ignaceous rocks are formed I can't help but make a comparison between the human mind and the structure of the earth.
Under the crust of the earth is the fiery mantle. Temperatures so high that rock flows like water and condensese minerals so tightly that they get become a thin line within the flow. So that's where "veins" of ore come from!
Yet we humans often have a psychological crust, the surface we present to other people. Below that crust flow our fiery passions. If you hve an eating disorder you try to keep
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I spoke with a father this week who told me his daughter, 35 years old, no longer threw up but still had compulsive thought patterns and feelings of shame. He said the first he and his wife knew their daughter had a problem was when a friend of her confided to them that their daughter, then 20 years old, was suicidal. I was so moved by this man's story, especially when he thanked me, with tears in his eyes, because it was the first time he spoke about his feelings about his daughter's trials.
The question that comes up is, why would a loving parent who saw his child every day not notice
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Suffering from an eating disorder is a lonely business. You have to pretend to be happy, competent and fine without letting the people around you know your desperation. Yes, when you come right down to it, just about every action that stems from an eating disorder is an act of desperation. The binge, restriction, denial, purge, starvation, exercise, controlling behaviors - these are all unhappy and desperate activities that you try to keep secret. When you have so many secrets
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