Eating Disorders for Dummies

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Author: Susan Schulherr

ISBN-10: 0470225491

ISBN-13: 9780470225493

Category: Psychological Disorders

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...

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Eating Disorders For Dummies serves as a comprehensive, practical guide for sufferers and their loved ones, covering anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. It provides a roadmap for healthy recovery, outlines the role of professional treatment providers, supplies guidelines for finding a good therapist and enables the reader to take charge of ensuring recovery. It also reviews the needs of family members and others who care and offers suggestions for common issues that arise when you live with someone who has an eating disorder. It explores typical companion disorders like depression, anxiety, compulsive exercise and substance abuse. It also considers the needs of special at–risk populations such at athletes, performers, men and the middle–aged and elderly.

Introduction. Part I: Eating Disorders: An All-Consuming World of Their Own. Chapter 1: Understanding Eating Disorders. Chapter 2: Getting Insight into Anorexia Nervosa. Chapter 3: Seeing Inside Bulimia Nervosa. Chapter 4: Understanding Binge Eating Disorder. Chapter 5: Eating Disorder Risk Factors. Chapter 6: Deconstructing Your Body with an Eating Disorder. Chapter 7: Sidekicks That Often Accompany Eating Disorders. Part II: Getting Well: Exploring Recovery and Treatment Options. Chapter 8: Seeing What Recovery Looks Like. Chapter 9: Deciding the Who, What, and Where for Treatment. Chapter 10: Finding the Treatment Approach That’s Right for You. Chapter 11: Including Other People in Your Treatment. Chapter 12: Exploring Medication and Other Approaches. Chapter 13: Making Good Use of the Approach You Choose. Chapter 14: Managing Early Stage Recovery and the Reality of Relapse. Part III: Eating Disorders in Special Populations. Chapter 15: Eating Disorders in Males. Chapter 16: Athletes and Eating Disorders. Chapter 17: Eating Disorders on the Stage, Screen, and Runway. Chapter 18: Eating Disorders in Children. Chapter 19: Eating Disorders Later In Life. Chapter 20: Eating Disorders and People Who Are Obese. Part IV: Advice and Help for Families and Others Who Care. Chapter 21: Forming a Plan to Help the Person with an Eating Disorder. Chapter 22: Implementing Your Plan to Help. Chapter 23: Making Life Livable WhileSupporting Another’s Recovery. Chapter 24: Finding Support for Yourself While Supporting Another’s Recovery. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 25: Ten Don’ts: Behaviors and Thoughts to Avoid. Chapter 26: Ten Do’s: Ways to Enhance Your Recovery. Resource Guide. Index.