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Day # 149: Other Eating Disorders (Avoidant/Restrictive, Rumination, & Pica)

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss three less well known eating disorders: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, Rumination Disorder, and Pica. Does not occur exclusively during the course of other eating disorders. Pica : Prevalence is unclear.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, as a rule, you shouldn’t accept presents from your client, the book asserted. However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

Kids—especially teenage girls—are presenting with self-described Tourette’s, eating disorders, autism, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)—but suddenly, and in a way that doesn’t match how these diagnoses have previously been identified. Many suggest that it is time to retire this label.

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A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment

Mad in America

This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Teaching classes was meditative and kept me centered in the present moment. My somatic therapist taught me how to observe my body and my surroundings to come back to the present moment before and after a session.

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Day # 147: Bulimia Nervosa Part 2

Bullet Psych

Today we will continue our current theme of eating disorders as we discuss bulimia nervosa. Today's Content Level: Intermediate Clinical Pearls 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 History : Bulimia nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating combined with behaviors intended to counteract the weight gain (purging).

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

Charles Spencer; Photo by Robert Wilson/Contour by Getty Images Meanwhile, alleged abusers have recently been present in other boarding schools. But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. In 2023, a teacher at the boarding school I was sent to was banned from teaching. He saw me in distress. He was twenty-nine.

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

Diagnoses of what are referred to in DSM-5 as neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD and ASD) are presented as a fundamental truth about who you are. In her view, generational trauma, addictions, eating disorders and family violence are all caused by ‘our ancestors not knowing who they are’. I see and hear.