Carrie has posted what I believe needs to be a rallying call for us all. The eating disorder worlds dirty little secret It is time for us to call "bullshit" on the certainty that so many are ...
As hard as it is to accept that ones child has a life-threatening eating disorder requiring a complete shift of life priorities, sometimes it isnt just an eating disorder. Ive known so many families ...
Please consider signing this petition: e-Petition:Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service We call on the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to fund the Child and Adolescent...
Im delighted to announce that registration is now open for the next F.E.A.S.T. conference for parents: Theres No Place Like Home November 30 & December 1 (come a day early to attend an exciting f...
Happy news! June Alexander with Professor Janet Treasure at the 2010 EDIC, London. At Home with Eating Disorders, Brisbane, May 23-25, features Prof. Treasure as a keynote speaker. Carers will not wa...
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Confidence is tremendously difficult when a parent is faced with: A frightening prognosis Perplexing symptoms Confusion about what is their child and what is the illness No clear understanding of the...
Kartini Clinics Dr. Julie OToole, a F.E.A.S.T. Advisor, is interviewed on TV in a very moving feature on a family that faced anorexia nervosa together. Anorexia in boys an overlooked condition
Not that I need a picture, but for those who still struggle with the fact that the brain can blind itself in very specific ways - and that this changes the responsibility of caregivers: Breakthrough ...
It strikes me more and more that the real problem isnt that most parents get bad information and consultation about eating disorders. It is that even when we have the best information we dont have th...
This may well be the worst reporting, worst headline, worst understanding of the issue at hand Ive seen in years. Its like a 3D scan of fallacies! 3D scanning ‘is best way to tackle anorexia’ I haven...
Most people who learn the word anosognosia immediately understand its role in eating disorders, especially anorexia. NONE of us have a clue, at first, how to pronounce it! TAC knows how to pronounce ...
I keep hearing people say "I feel like I cant say ANYTHING bad about parents without being attacked." Let me reassure you. For example, you can say: "Some parents teach their kids to hate...
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Charlotte has published a remarkable document at her blog that will get people thinking, talking, and I suspect: angry. Some will be angry that she question it. Others that these policies exist. No o...
Posted by request: Are you the Mother of a Son who has received inpatient treatment for Anorexia Nervosa? If so, please consider participating in this important study, which seeks to exp...
There are so many quotable lines in the blog post, "Fantasy of Being Thin" that I have given up trying. You just have to read it. Suffice it to say that ALMOST EVERY WOMAN I KNOW needs to rea...
Charlotte really sums it up here. I sometimes do feel a bit funny that so much of my life is spent "with" people who dont live anywhere near me and yet they are very real and the relati...
I met danceswithfat! It was at the last night party at ICED in Austin and I was introduced to the uber-cool blogger, danceswithfat, whose dance moves I admire as much as her blogitude. Wish Id known ...
Posted by request: "‘Successful Recovery’: Characterising and evaluating the role of life events in maintained recovery from mental health issues. Dear Participant, I would like to invite you to ...
The ability to publish anything we want is new, but weve adapted to it quickly. Talking back to anything published is newer, but were just adjusting, painfully, now. "Lately, there’s been a new f...
iaedp Symposium 2013 Whats New Under the Sun? Innovative Approaches to Treatment March 21-24, 2013 The Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa Henderson, Nevada Call for Proposals We are seeking abstrac...
So, my friends have been demanding that I get going on my conference report. Im going to do this very impressionistically and without any sort of efficiency. If you have specific questions, ask ...
Posted by request: I am conducting an NIMH-funded study of adolescents with BN that is aimed at understanding neural factors that might contribute to illness persistence. We are looking for girl...
How to deliver the scariest speech of your life to 900 people 10. A little controversy and this is only one of them! 9. One good idea 8. A litt...
Picture this: landed last night at home airport feeling like the picture of good business traveller. Packed well, lost nothing along the way, conference a satisfying delight, all my chargers and a su...
The most useful concept I ever learned in therapy* was letting go of the "shoulds." This was a tremendous struggle for me. I had a lot of "shoulds." Children should be tucked in at ni...
How much control do we have over our actions? People with addictions and mental illness used to strike me as people who just werent trying hard enough. Sure, they may have had special challenges - ba...
Terrific article by F.E.A.S.T. mom about son with eating disorder, as well as a wonderful piece by a F.E.A.S.T. advisor, Dr. Mark Warren in Teenage Boys and Anorexia in Your Teen magazine!
OK, so who is going to AED in Austin and wants to gather a mob for dinner on Wednesday? Because THESE Austins arent invited.
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