21 Dec
Understanding Bulimia – Symptoms
What Are the Symptoms?
How Do I Know If I Have Bulimia?
According to the National Institutes of Health, you are suffering from the eating disorder bulimia if you experience these binge-purge symptoms at least twice a week for three months:
You eat much more food than usual, in just a short time — especially [...]
8 Dec
Antidepressant May Change Personality While Relieving Symptoms
ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2009) — Individuals taking a medication to treat depression may experience changes in their personality separate from the alleviation of depressive symptoms, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Two personality traits, neuroticism and extraversion, have [...]
8 Sep
FRIDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) — Mildly depressed teenagers are more likely to have major depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders as adults, a new study suggests.
In 1983, researchers interviewed 755 teenagers who were about age 16 about mood, anxiety and eating disorders, disruptive behaviors and substance abuse.
About 8 percent were found to have minor [...]
14 Jun
ScienceDaily (June 11, 2009) — A new study connects abnormalities of the “stress” hormone cortisol with symptoms of depression in obese children, and confirms that obesity and depression often occur together, even in children. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
“There is evidence in adults that abnormal regulation [...]
8 Feb
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Feb. 06, 2008 - The prevalence of depression and anxiety among patients with polycystic ovary syndrome is high and warrants routine screening and aggressive treatment, investigators report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
In a previous study, Dr. Anuja Dokras, at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues identified high rates of [...]
9 Jan
Eating disorders may be rising among male athletes
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Jan. 08, 2009 – More and more male athletes are developing unhealthy eating behaviors after seeing the competitive advantage a leaner physique can bring, a sports medicine doctor warns in a new report.
Recent deaths among wrestlers have raised awareness of eating [...]
17 Dec
New Psychotherapy Has Potential To Treat Majority Of Cases Of Eating Disorders
ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2008) — Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports.
This new “enhanced” [...]
6 Sep
I found this video on YouTube by: lifestarmedic1 and found it very well done. It explains mental illness stigma from beginning to end. If you have a moment, please take a peek.
31 Jul
(ScienceDaily) – July 29, 2008 — A recent study reveals that university undergraduate women who actively participate in sports and exercise-related activities tend to have higher rates of attitudes and behaviors related to eating disorders compared to those who do not regularly exercise.
The researchers concluded that women who have higher anxiety about their sport or [...]
30 Jul
This is one of the better videos I found on eating disorders (anorexia) on YouTube. See what you think.
30 Jun
Rejecting media images, resilience to negative comments should be focus of prevention
By Kevin McKeever
TUESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) — Boys and girls develop eating disorders for different reasons, so prevention strategies may need to vary by gender, according to a new report.
“Frequent dieting and trying to look like persons in the media were independent [...]
22 May
Science Daily – April 23, 2008 – Sixty-five percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 report having disordered eating behaviors, according to the results of a new survey by Self Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An additional 10 percent of women report symptoms consistent with [...]
5 Dec
Decade of data shows increase in weight-control behaviors across cultures
By Robert Preidt
FRIDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) — Eating disorders rose significantly among American boys between 1995 and 2005, according to a study that examined weight control behaviors among high school students.
The study, based on an analysis of national data from the U.S. Centers for [...]
20 Nov
ScienceDaily (Nov. 19, 2007) — Eating disorders in the U.S. among ethnic groups were thought to be rare, but recent studies have shown that many cultures are now exposed to the thin beauty ideal. As a result, experts expect to see an increase in eating disorder symptoms among ethnic groups. It is also suspected that [...]
17 Oct
Online source: www.reuters.com
By Anne Harding
October 1, 2007 – NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Whether or not a person with an eating disorder uses more than one method of purging may be a better indicator of the severity of the disorder than how frequently purging occurs, results of a study suggest.
But purging frequency was linked to [...]
15 Oct
By Anne Harding
Friday, September 14, 2007 – NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – No matter what their weight or their eating habits, young women feel worse about themselves and their appearance after viewing pro-anorexia websites, which explicitly encourage extreme thinness, a new study shows.
“It works on a couple of levels, it works on mood, it works [...]
In 1994, depression took over my life and held on tight for 9 years.
I was medication resistant and told my only hope was ECT. Thankfully, a new doc stepped in and put me on the correct meds. I am now working again and moods are stable. Couldn't have survived this without the support of my hubby of 30 years.
Virginia was a brilliant author, penning some 10 novels, numerous short fiction and non-fiction, as well as, autobiographies. However she was the victim of depression and drastic mood swings, later diagnosed as Bipolar Disorder. Relapse after relapse eventually led to her death in 1941. Virginia drowned herself by weighing her pockets with stones and walking into a river. Her body was not discovered until one month later.
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