Eating Disorders Psychology

In one way or another, everyone has been manipulated by glossy magazines, beauty gurus, societal standards, and diet culture into hating their bodies. We have put our existence through immense turmoil of starvation and unrealistic health regimes without considering how they can impact us in the long run. You might have fallen prey to those evils, but it is never too late to liberate yourself.

Low mood and depression are endemic, and on the increase, and the recession has further fuelled the need for the practical, down-to-earth advice provided in The Feel Good Factor. Written and adapted for audio by leading nutrition expert and mental-health specialist Patrick Holford, it reveals highly effective methods to make a difference to how you feel - without the need for medical drugs.

Food Jail is written by psychologist, public speaker, and food enthusiast Stephanie Georgiou. In this compelling self-help book, Stephanie shares her own dark and personal journey through an eating disorder that lasted almost a decade.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an evidence-based treatment for binge eating disorder, and most experts agree that while it yields positive treatment results, there is room for improvement in treatment. Shame is an important contributing factor in the development and maintenance of binge eating disorder.

Bones is the tragicomic, roller coaster story of Robyn Shumer’s lifelong battle with—and triumph over—a crippling eating disorder. It’s an honest, first-person account that takes the listener inside the emotional, mental, physical, and social world of an anorexic from childhood to adulthood, through four decades of a changing society whose message to girls and women remained stubbornly the same: “thinner is the winner.”

Do you struggle with your relationship with food? Are you tired of chasing diets and feeling like a failure? Emotional eating (stress eating, binge eating) can feel like a never-ending cycle of guilt and shame. You turn to food for comfort or stress relief, but the relief is only temporary, and the weight gain and health consequences can be long-lasting.

Balena è la storia di un corpo che cambia e diventa gigantesco, ma è anche la storia di una donna che si riappropria di sé grazie a quel corpo. Dopo la perdita del padre, a soli undici anni, Giulia inizia a cercare di colmare quel vuoto enorme col cibo, finendo per passare da 40 a 96 chili in pochi mesi. Poi, insieme al corpo, cominciano a crescere il rifiuto di sé e la vergogna, mentre compagni e insegnanti iniziano a trattarla in modo diverso. Un memoir toccante e acuto che racconta la stigmatizzazione del corpo, il superamento del lutto e la ricerca di un nuovo inizio.

Autism and eating disorder recovery coach Livia Sara spent nearly a decade of her life trapped in the golden cage of restriction. From calorie counting to weighing food and tracking minutes exercised, her life revolved around rules and numbers. It wasn’t until she committed to recovery that a new beast was unleashed: extreme hunger. Just like that, Livia’s hyper-controlled, perfect eating plan transformed into an insatiable hole of hunger. Thoughts about food tugged so hard that the only option was to eat until she felt physically sick…and yet she still wanted to eat more food.

Hi! Here’s the Memo!, a collection of every memo I wish I had gotten when I needed it most, is my love letter to all women who walk beside and will come after me. My "memo collecting" has been both a personal and professional journey I have been on since age 19 when I began my own recovery from Anorexia.

Ироничная и пронзительная исповедь нового поколения о поиске любви к себе. Когда давит усталость от мегаполиса, одиночества и культуры достигаторства. Когда поискам любви, дружбы и понятного, осмысленного занятия мешает рабская зависимость от сервисов и личного комфорта. Лене тридцать. Внешне у нее понятная сложившаяся жизнь: карьера в креативном агентстве, ипотека, вечеринки, друзья. Но ещё у нее есть тайна — булимия. Вот уже больше десяти лет Лена сидит на диете, срывается, снова голодает — и так по кругу.

You can try a million diets and still fail. You can lose 20 pounds, but get 30 back. As long as you’re wasting your time following diet fads, you’ll always be bouncing back and forth. After a while, this will make you miserable. It might seem like you can never lose the weight you want. The thing is, when it comes to losing weight, it’s all about the mind-set. We all know it’s good to eat healthily and exercise, but why don’t we do it?

Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters.

Es ist okay, an sich selbst zu zweifeln. Es ist okay, nicht zu wissen, was man will. Du bist okay so wie du bist. Mit all deinen Ängsten, Unsicherheiten und Träumen. Denn Selbstfindung ist eine Lebensaufgabe und keine Checkliste, die man bis Ende zwanzig abgearbeitet haben muss. Es gibt keine Fehler – nur Situationen, an denen wir rückblickend wachsen konnten. Diese wichtige Erkenntnis musste sich Angela Doe hart erkämpfen. Stück für Stück lernte sie, ihren Körper und das Leben zu lieben. Sie überwand ihre Essstörung, fand ihren Platz in dieser Welt und den Weg zu sich selbst.

María José Jiménez sufrió de anorexia y bulimia a los quince años, y esto casi la lleva a la muerte. En este audiolibro encontramos, por un lado, el testimonio de María José, y por el otro el de Sandra, su mamá, que le cuentan al oyente cómo vivieron esta aterradora experiencia y cómo salieron adelante. Los dos relatos se complementan y nos permiten entender dos puntos de vista de una enfermedad que cada vez ataca a más jóvenes y adolescentes en el mundo.

Verlieren Sie immer wieder die Kontrolle über Ihr Essverhalten? Merken Sie, dass Ihre Essanfälle den Bereich des Normalen langsam verlassen? Wollen Sie dagegen ansteuern und sich aus dem Teufelskreis von Essen und schlechtem Gewissen befreien? Dann haben Sie mit diesem Ratgeber den entscheidenden ersten Schritt getan! Bei der Essstörung „Binge Eating“ verschlingen Betroffene in kurzer Zeit immense Mengen kalorienreicher Nahrung, wobei sie in einen Zustand des Kontrollverlusts geraten.

Seu corpo tem a sabedoria de que você precisa. Escute-o e descubra a liberdade de ter uma relação saudável com a comida. Revolucionário em sua abordagem antidieta e verdadeira referência no assunto, Comer intuitivo explica por que as dietas são prejudiciais e exploram modismos nutricionais que têm nos tornado cada vez menos saudáveis. Especialistas em nutrição, Evelyn Tribole e Elyse Resch mostram que o caminho para estabelecer uma relação saudável com a comida é ouvir o próprio corpo e se reconectar com a sabedoria interna sobre alimentação.

Los trastornos de alimentación siguen siendo un problema oculto en una sociedad que los observa con condescendencia y los alienta con comportamientos erróneos. Unos trastornos tradicionalmente asociados a las adolescentes, y que ahora padecen también muchos hombres y mujeres adultas, que no se reducen a la anorexia y a la bulimia, sino que incluyen ortorexia, vigorexia, conductas compulsivas y muchos otros.

Wenn ich heute in den Spiegel schaue, sehe ich einen gutaussehenden (Mal mehr, mal weniger) jungen Mann. Nicht perfekt. Narben überall am Körper, ein kleines Bäuchlein, Lovehandles, nicht sehr groß oder gar muskulös. Aber ein Anblick der mir gefällt. Das war nicht immer so und der Weg dahin war gepflastert mit Ängsten, Schmerzen, Abscheu, Komplikationen, Depressionen und Hoffnung. Mein Name ist Riyas Hoge und in I did it my way - Maskenball nehme ich euch mit auf meinen Weg in ein freies Leben.

Manual para hacer frente a los trastornos alimenticios y carencias emocionales que conducen a ellos Esclavos de la comida (Narración en Castellano)

Alayna Burke and Melissa Kelley weave their stories of illness and recovery through 12 topics that fed their eating disorders and share how they now manage those challenges to fully participate in life. Full offers insight and hope to people struggling with eating disorders and those who love them.