From the archives: I see angry people…
{{I’m busy this week and doing some traveling, so I probably won’t have as much time as I normally would to blog. As such, I’m pulling some posts out of the archives. I got a lot of positive feedback...
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Defining recovery: What contributes to recovery and remission from an ED?
In the first two blog posts of this series, I’ve looked at how researchers define recovery, and how patients do so. Now, I want to look at what factors predict recovery in eating disorders. But first,...
View ArticleACT-ing to find a new anorexia therapy
Given that there are really no evidence-based treatments for adults with anorexia, researchers, clinicians, patients, and families are all eager to try and find something that will help this group of...
View ArticleThe problem with “almost anorexia”
Hang on to your hats, people, because we have a new eating disorder in town. This one is called “almost anorexia.” Wait…what?!? Do we really need another pseudo-cutesy name for an eating disorder like...
View ArticleGuest Post: Caveat walker–Why ED charity has lost the plot
It’s very rare that I do guest posts here at ED Bites, but occasionally I do make an exception, and this is one of them. The post stemmed from a discussion at the ED Bites Facebook page, and after...
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Through a door sideways: Body size distortion in anorexia
When I was a grad student in Baltimore, I lived in a 400 square foot studio apartment. Two of the doors were normal sized (the front door and the one to the bathroom), but one that opened off from the...
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Why I suck at intuitive eating
As I mentioned in my last post, I don’t always get along with hunger and fullness cues. There are any number of reasons for it, not the least of which is having a chronic eating disorder. But it might...
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Puberty and Eating Disorders- The Perfect Storm
Puberty sucks. Let’s just get that out of the way. Your body is changing, sprouting breasts and zits at the most inopportune of times. The angst of being more or less “developed” than your friends...
View ArticleEating disorders in young children–how bad is it?
It’s hard to escape the media coverage of eating disorders in young children. The stories are usually framed around the growing numbers of young children (generally meaning pre-pubescent, typically 10...
View ArticleOn orthorexia, Part two: Orthorexia as a hybrid of OCD and anorexia?
In my previous blog post (which was, admittedly, ages ago), I talked about what orthorexia was and its close links with OCD. In my research for that post, I found a relatively new study that looked at...
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