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Eating Disorders For Dummies
By: Susan SchulherreBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Do you think that you or someone you love may suffer from and eating disorder? Eating Disorders For Dummies gives you the straight facts you need to make sense of what’s happening inside you and offers a simple step-by-step procedure for developing a safe and health plan for recovery.
This practical, reassuring, and gentle guide explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. Informative checklists help you determine whether you are suffering form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is having or may soon have on your health. You’ll also get plenty of help in finding the right therapist, evaluating the latest treatments, and learning how to support recovery on a day-by-day basis. Discover how to: Identify eating disorder warning signs Set yourself on a sound and successful path to recovery Recognize companion disorders and addictions Handle anxiety and emotional eating Survive setbacks Approach someone about getting treatment Treat eating disorders in men, children, and the elderly Help a sibling, friend, or partner with and eating disorder Benefit from recovery in ways you never imagined
Complete with helpful lists of recovery dos and don’ts, Eating Disorders For Dummies is an immensely important resource for anyone who wants to recover — or help a loved one recover — from one of these disabling conditions and regain a healthy and energetic life.
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| Title of eBook: Eating Disorders For Dummies | |
| Release Date: 02-08-2011 | |
| Publisher: For Dummies |
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Eating Disorders For Dummies
Chapter One
Understanding Eating Disorders
In This Chapter
* Understanding what an eating disorder is
* Finding out why eating disorders have been on the rise
* Seeing a better future through treatment and recovery
The term eating disorder sounds like something that refers to somebody who doesn't eat right. And, in one sense, it certainly does. Some people with eating disorders severely under-eat, to the point of risking their health or their lives. Others repeatedly overeat in extreme ways and may do risky things to get rid of the calories they've taken in. But what's not right about the eating is far more complicated than calories and nutrition.
In this chapter you get an overall sense of the eating disorders as physical and psychological syndromes: What do they look and feel like? Who gets them? What is an eating disorder doing in a person's life? How is getting an eating disorder driven by the culture, and how does that help us understand people with eating disorders better?
If you have an eating disorder, I tell you what you need to do to find treatment and get better. This previews Part II of this book, which covers treatments from soup to nuts. If you are a parent or caregiver to someone with an eating disorder, I discuss some of the difficulties of your situation. Part IV of this book, expanding on what I say here, is essentially a how-to section devoted to caregivers.
Getting a Sense of the Problem
People with eating disorders experience psychological issues and are compulsive in their eating habits. These play on each other over time, causing the ea
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