Download or read book Diary of an Eating Disorder written by Chelsea Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chelsea Smith's journal entries help to chronicle her struggle to overcome anorexia and bulimia and give insights into what factors lead to her eating disorder, while her mother's entries tell how her family was struggling to come to terms with Chelsea's illness.
Download or read book Diary of an Anorexic Girl written by Morgan Menzie and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace. Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.
Download or read book The Ritteroo Journal for Eating Disorders Recovery written by Lindsey Hall and published by GŸrze Books. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guided journal includes inspirational quotes and prompts for individuals in recovery from eating disorders. With soulful artwork by the late Mary Anne Ritter — “Ritteroo” — who suffered from anorexia nervosa while conceiving of this project, this four-color workbook combines textual and graphic inspiration with plenty of space for writing. Written by eating-disorders expert Lindsey Hall, the text is organized into six categories for self-exploration: relationships, thoughts, feelings, heart, body, and recovery.
Download or read book Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders written by June Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders: The diary healer uses a unique combination of evidence-based research and raw diary excerpts to explain the pitfalls and benefits of diary writing during recovery from an eating disorder. In a time when diary writing remains a largely untapped resource in the health care professions, June Alexander sets out to correct this imbalance, explaining how the diary can inspire, heal and liberate, provide a learning tool for others and help us to understand and cope with life challenges. The book focuses on the power of diary writing, which may serve as a survival tool but become an unintended foe. With guidance, patients who struggle with face-to-face therapy are able to reveal their thoughts through writing and construct a strong sense of self. The effects of family background and the environment are explored, and the therapeutic value of sharing diaries, to better understand illness symptoms and behaviours, is discussed. Using Writing as a Therapy for Eating Disorders will be of interest to those who have recovered or are recovering from eating disorders or any mental illness, as well as therapists, clinicians and others working in the medical and healthcare professions.
Download or read book Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders written by Glenn Waller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the application of cognitive behavioural principles to patients with a wide range of eating disorders - it covers those with straightforward problems and those with more complex conditions or co-morbid states. The book takes a highly pragmatic view. It is based on the published evidence, but stresses the importance of individualized, principle-based clinical work. It describes the techniques within the widest clinical context, for use across the age range and from referral to discharge. Throughout the text, the links between theory and practice are highlighted in order to stress the importance of the flexible application of skills to each new situation. Case studies and sample dialogs are employed to demonstrate the principles in action and the book concludes with a set of useful handouts for patients and other tools. This book will be essential reading for all those working with eating-disordered patients including psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, counsellors, dieticians, and occupational therapists.
Download or read book Stick Figure written by Lori Gottlieb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted. Stick Figure" has been option for film by Martin Scorsese's De Fina/Cappa Productions.
Download or read book Wasted written by Marya Hornbacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of psychology and eating disorders, now reissued with an important and perhaps controversial new afterword by the author, Wasted is New York Times bestselling author Marya Hornbacher's highly acclaimed memoir that chronicles her battle with anorexia and bulimia. Vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching, Wasted is the story of how Marya Hornbacher willingly embraced hunger, drugs, sex, and death—until a particularly horrifying bout with anorexia and bulimia in college forever ended the romance of wasting away. In this updated edition, Hornbacher, an authority in the field of eating disorders, argues that recovery is not only possible, it is necessary. But the journey is not easy or guaranteed. With a new ending to her story that adds a contemporary edge, Wasted continues to be timely and relevant.
Download or read book The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal written by Cara Lisette and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal is designed to help you to understand your eating disorder better and to support you in your recovery journey. It is packed full of activities, such as writing prompts, colouring pages and crafting ideas, as well as motivational quotes and positive affirmations to help keep you on track. Drawing on evidence-based techniques including CBT and mindfulness, it brings together creative activities and approaches that have helped author Cara Lisette to challenge her eating disorder, stay motivated, improve body image and prevent relapses. This journal is yours to be as free and creative with as you wish. It is designed for anybody struggling with an eating disorder who wants to start their recovery journey and reclaim their freedom and future.
Download or read book The Anorexia Diaries written by Linda Rio and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Last night I asked my mom some questions about bulimia and anorexia. I thought for sure she would know what I was doing to myself. How could a mother not know the terrible things her daughter was doing?" "Tara seems fine these last few days. The questions she asked me the other night scared me. But now I think she's just curious. Maybe one of her friends is having a problem with something." Mother and daughter, living in the same house, yet at times it seems as though they are on different planets. Tara, growing obsessive about the way she looks, feels her mom no longer understands her. Linda, while concerned about the changes her teenage daughter is going through, is focused on making a career for herself as a family therapist. Neither knows how to reverse the terrible path that Tara is heading down. Tara's and Linda's side-by-side diaries of this difficult time, only shared with each other years later, show both sides of their maddening ordeal and inspiring victory to keep their family together. In addition to sharing their actual diaries, Tara and Linda look back on the drama of those years to offer the wisdom and perspective that can only come with hindsight. Craig Johnson, Ph.D., an international leader in the research and treatment of eating disorders, offers useful advice and fascinating commentary on the Rios' story to inform today's families who may be going through similar situations.
Download or read book Mealtimes and Milestones written by Constance Barter and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishingly moving and mature account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia nervosa, a serious mental illness affecting 1.1 million people in the UK. At fourteen years of age, Constance Barter was admitted as an in-patient to a specialist eating disorders unit where she remained for seven months. During that time, she kept a diary which sheds light on what it means to have anorexia, how it affects your life, and how it is not just a faddy diet or attention seeking disorder. Constance is an example to anyone suffering from this potentially life-threatening illness that with perseverance and support it can be beaten and sufferers can go on and lead a fulfilling, everyday life. This inspirational diary will help and inspire other sufferers to seek help and overcome their illness as well as providing an invaluable insight into the nature of the illness to families and friends.
Download or read book Lost written by May Betancourt Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does dieting end and an eating disorder begin? When is a diet too extreme? Much more than a diary, Lost takes you through the different phases of disordered eating. From the very first distorted self images to the full blown disorder, to treatment and recovery. It is insightfully written through poetry and diary entries. Lost is brutally honest and it also shows the reader how, at any age, it is possible to live a happy, healthy, and authentic life.
Download or read book Running on Empty written by Carrie Arnold and published by Nelson Publishing&Marketing. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiographical account of a young woman's struggle with anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Download or read book Raw The diary of an anorexic HarperTrue Life A Short Read written by Lydia Davies and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family and great friends when she became anorexic. The doctors told her that she would die.
Download or read book Diaries of an Anorexic written by Athina Crilley and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaries of an Anorexic is a powerful and intimate recovery story detailing the author's seven-year rollercoaster battle with Anorexia Nervosa, a devastating eating disorder. In this heart-wrenching memoir she shares private diary entries from her darkest times and shows how Anorexia took hold of her during her teenage years and kept her tightly in its clutches until early adulthood. While she does not shy away from the harsh reality of eating disorders, the daily routines and protocols of being hospitalised, and almost succumbing to being sectioned under the mental health act, she also hopes this book will aid the recovery of others. Everybody's struggle is unique and personal, but there are often similarities between individuals diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa. Athina encourages any sufferers to work towards recovery, and to realise that recovery is possible through making small, consistent changes and building a strong support network. Read this emotional story about Athina's recovery from an eating disorder, an illness from which she never thought she would never be free. Remember that blue skies are coming... the dark clouds will soon disappear, leaving a clear, blue sky.
Download or read book Diary of an Exercise Addict written by Peach Friedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Peach Friedman, a college senior freshly broken up from her boyfriend, set out to beat the blues by beating herself into shape. Running ten miles a day and taking in as little as 800 calories, she fell from 146 pounds to 100 in three months and was at serious risk of cardiac arrest. What Friedman suffered from was exercise bulimia—a newly diagnosed and rapidly spreading eating disorder that affects some 400,000 American women, and which gyms and colleges across America are beginning to take seriously. In Diary of an Exercise Addict Friedman recounts her descent into a life-threatening illness, her remarkable recovery, and the setbacks along the way. With refreshing candor she lays bare her relationships with family, friends, and lovers and the repressed desire that finally surfaced as she found her own way back to health.
Download or read book When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder written by Lauren Muhlheim and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your teen has an eating disorder—such as anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating—you may feel helpless, worried, or uncertain about how you can best support them. That’s why you need real, proven-effective strategies you can use right away. Whether used in conjunction with treatment or on its own, this book offers an evidence-based approach you can use now to help your teen make healthy choices and stay well in body and mind. When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you’ll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen’s nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse. In addition to helping parents and caregivers, this book is a wonderful resource for mental health professionals, teachers, counselors, and coaches who work with parents of and teens with eating disorders. It clearly outlines the principles of FBT and the process of involving parents collaboratively in treatment. As a parent, feeding your child is a fundamental act of love—it has been from the start! However, when a child is affected by an eating disorder, parents often lose confidence in performing this basic task. This compassionate guide will help you gain the confidence needed to nurture your teen and help them heal.
Download or read book Raw Uncut written by Lydia Davies and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lydia was diagnosed with anorexia aged 19, it wasn't just half her body weight that she ended up losing. Her boyfriend, best friend, degree and identity were forced out of her life by the illness. Then she came close to losing life itself. With devastating honesty, Lydia exposes what it's like to live through anorexia nervosa, bulimia, alcoholism, addiction and depression. A terrifying journey through darkness, ending with the discovery of a life filled with more light than she ever knew existed. Lydia hopes her true story of trauma, struggle, recovery and healing will prove to others that there is still hope in their suffering. She now dedicates her life to spreading awareness and helping people through their own struggles through yoga. The proceeds from this book go directly towards these endeavours.
