|
Julie's Journal
Listen to Your Heart
 I haven't been very honest lately.... I've been vague when talking
about the eating disorder... when in fact, I need to be talking about what has
been going on in my head.... yes... I have been dealing with alot of outside
stress lately... but, I have been using those things to focus on instead of the
bigger picture...I was really having a hard time dealing with the extra weight
that I gained while I was on sick leave with my recent neck surgery... instead
of accepting that ... and realizing that things would stabilize at some point...
I made sure of it by cutting back ...and I wonder why a few people in my life
still feel that I cannot be trusted when it comes to the ED...I didn't remain
honest with my thoughts.... I could have talked about them... and had help
working through them, instead I thought I should take care of things in my own
way....I realized this and rationally made the decision to meal plan again....
just to be safe for awhile, but I didn't stick with that plan either.... after
all... in my mind.... I'm not the same as before... I can handle this... this
demon sucks me in so easily....I reality, I know I cannot stay on the road to
recovery if I entertain these thoughts... I know this... yet... I continually
get sucked in by my own arrogance,,,, I've got to stop... in recovery... I
cannot accept anything other than total commitment....
Continue reading my journal my journal and please post your comments in my
bulletin
board.
Online Conference Transcript
Eating Disorders Recovery Strategy Chat Transcript
Have
you tried recovering from Bulimia, but having great difficulty? Or maybe you
just gave up completely? Or you're wondering what does it take to be successful
in your recovery efforts?
When it comes to treating bulimia, there is no such thing as "it doesn't
work." Yet psychotherapist and site owner of
Beat Bulimia, Judith
Asner, says she gets emails like that all the time from people who seem to have
given up. Ms. Asner
says you keep seeking, practicing, revising your plan until it works, changing
this and that piece till the pieces fit.
Read the transcript from
Saturday's chat with Judith Asner, MSW.
Concerned Counseling Eating Disorders
Website
Letters of Pain
I am a nineteen year old female. I was anorexic when I was fifteen, but I
still have to deal with this disease to this day.
At times I have to make myself eat and at other times I just have to decide
that I won't listen to people's comments.
People's comments are what triggered this whole disease for me. I have always
been skinny, but not as skinny as my older sister. I would look at her and think
that I had to be skinnier than her since I was younger. People used to tell me
that I was going to be fat when I got older. It was a big joke to a lot of
people, but it affected me more than they will ever know. They made stupid
comments like," Anna, you are getting so big that soon you won't be able to fit
through the double doors."
Of course, I was not gaining weight but I just had to prove to everyone that
I was not going to get fat. In the summer before ninth grade, I stopped eating.
I tried to see how long I could go without eating anything.
Visit Concerned Counseling
to continue reading.
News
Self Esteem in All Sizes
According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately one-third of
all American adults are overweight. And at any given time, between 20 - 40
percent of adults are trying to lose weight.
The most predictable reactions to statistics like these are feelings of blame
or shame. But does self-flagellation really make people happier, more
productive, or, for that matter...thinner?
Carol Johnson says no. Ms. Johnson has been a larger person all her life, and
after years of dieting and acute feelings of guilt, she arrived at a crossroads.
Either continue on the path that equates self-esteem with diet success, or set
off on a new path, one that would allow her to develop a higher self-esteem
despite her weight ups and downs.
Johnson chose the latter. And in 1987, she founded Largely Positive, an
organization that promotes health and self-esteem among larger people. Below,
Ms. Johnson talks about her journey to self-acceptance, and the cultural
roadblocks that meet larger people as they undertake this journey today.
Continue reading.
Bookstore
Good Enough...When Losing is Winning, and Thin Enough Can Never be Achieved
 Cynthia Nappa Bitter's quest for "a better me" is her ticket to a
new adventure in Good Enough. Cindy climbs on the carousel of anorexia nervosa
and bulimia when she's 14, never suspecting she'll spin there for more than two
decades. Bitter glosses over her father's severe bouts with manic-depression
while minimizing her mother's denial of the obvious. Neither the media nor
society receive credit for fueling her quest for a skeletal shape or reinforcing
this ideal once it's attained. The author's refusal to point the finger of blame
away from herself illustrates the self-blaming nature of anorexia and bulimia.
Chapter after chapter whirls through the binge/purge cycle year after year. As
Cindy's despair mounts, so does reader-frustration until she vows to break the
cycle. Deception, Cindy's ally through seizures, apparent heart attacks, and the
loss of all her teeth, becomes the enemy. Bitter's message, that
self-destructive behavior can be overcome, is as compelling as her honesty.
buy the book or
comment on the book
 |
A place for your poetry, thoughts, and comments.
|
|
HealthyPlace.com Radio
"Controlling People"
on HealthyPlace.com Radio
Does this sound like someone you know?
-
Always needs to be right
-
Tells you who you are and what you think
-
Implies that you're wrong or inadequate when you
don't agree
-
Is threatened by people different from him or
herself
-
Feels attacked when questioned
-
Doesn't seem to really hear or see you
This Saturday, find out what it takes to free yourself from controlling
types; the kinds of people who inflict verbal abuse, battering, stalking,
harassment, hate crimes, gang violence, tyranny, terrorism, and territorial
invasion. And you can call in and ask our psychiatrist what to do about your
personal situation.
Join us this Saturday evening at 4 p.m. PST, 6 CST, 7 EST as we
discuss this problem. You can call in and share your stories and ask our
psychiatrist your personal questions.
Call us during the live show at
800-299-5872 or 210-599-5555.
For more information,
click here now
We had a great show last week on "The Life of One Gay Teen". You can
listen to it when you
visit
our archives.
Stay Tuned!
Sign up for the HealthyPlace.com Radio Show newsletter
when you
click here.
From our Bulletin Boards
The Monster Within
Donnarita19 wrote:
I dont know what happen??? it takes me over like a tidal wave and pulling me out
like and undertow at the beach. i feel this monster coming on before he even
gets to me fully.. for i know he will be arriving shortly..... i think of other
things how great it would be to be thin; to try and defy him; to pull away; but
it never works; he swoops into my life and takes me over... once he is there he
annoys me and talks me into eating everything in sight... when he leaves i am
depressed, failed, totally knocked down..... even though i know how i am going
to feel when i first feel him coming i cannot not stop him... i have defied him
before only for him to regain control and show me who is in charge.... i watch
him creeping up on me again and cannot stop him..... he does his job and leaves
... leaving me broken and trying to start all over again for his next
visit...... i have control over everything else in my life. my family, friends
and my job.... i am happy there of course he doesnt bother me there for i cannot
find enuf of him at work..... he waits until i get home to my comfort zone... no
matter if i see him in the am or snack on him.... at the later part of the day
he comes like the eye of the storm... why do i have control of everything else
and not him..??? i have given up things and made hard decisions and stuck by
them in my life , but i cannot conquer him..... yes he is FOOD.... sharing my
thoughts. tx for listening.....
Continue reading and write to me here.
click here now
Powerful Documentary Films at
HealthyPlace.com
"Reflections
of Emptiness: Straight Talk About Eating disorders " --
 Eating Disorders are literally killing our youth. Yet few parents, teachers or school
counselors know how to recognize the signs of anorexia and bulimia. Nor do they
know how to intervene when they suspect a teen is struggling with an eating
disorder. Reflections tells the true-life story of four San Antonio teens and
how they battled an eating disorder. It won the 2000 National Mental Health
Association Public Service award. The film helps teens and adults understand the
nature of eating disorders and why they should intervene.
You can watch them using your windows media player. We've also set up special
bulletin boards for your feedback.
Watch them Now!
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that's your own self.
--Aldous Huxley |
