Duration Until Recovery

While reading about treatment guidelines for eating disorders, I ran into this fairly recent study on the duration until recovery from eating disorders. Try to take a breath before you read this next part, the quote from an article, Clinical Approach to Eating Disorders: An Update, by Hay and published in 2020. EXCERPT “Research supports…Read more »

Bingeing: a rare but serious risk

A while ago, my colleague and friend, Dr. Lauren Muhlheim, and I wrote a paper (Eating disorders and scope of competence for outpatient psychotherapists). While researching potential medical consequences of different eating disorder behaviors, we came across something that is supposedly not common and there is very few articles on it: acute massive gastric dilatation.…Read more »

On the pursuit of muscles

Today, I find myself reflecting on a story from yesterday’s workshop on males with eating disorders. There was a personal trainer, “Zyzz,” who had a solid social media following. He LOOKED healthy and many seemed to desire his physique. So many emulated the practices Zyzz shared with the public. Zyzz had a heart attack in…Read more »

Prevention or protection?

When it comes to the idea of “eating disorder prevention,” differing (and seemingly passionate) views arise. Some I have heard or read about include opinions such as: Why spend precious and limited funds on something that we don’t know works? Is it even possible to prevent eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating…Read more »