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if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!welcome to the first carnival of eating disorders!
if you’re not familiar with blog carnivals, you may think this is an odd name – this link here will tell you more about blog carnivals.
this carnival contains articles about bulimia, anorexia, […]

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this is a message i received from one of my artist friends a few days ago (who wrote this under the name of “a manic english person”). he wanted to share his experience with being bipolar (under these copyright conditions):
A few months back I was assessed by an eminent psychiatrist who decided that I […]

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a few years ago, i put together this list of definitions to answer the question:
what is learning?
acquisition of knowledge
· gain some understanding that we have been able to commit to memory
· a seal of approval on particular thoughts and feelings that we want to stay with us in the […]

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after publishing my last newsletter, i received this amusing email from my friend rudolf penner.
After following your links over the “There but for the grace of God go I”
quote and finding out that the fellow was burnt at the stake, I ended up at
Coco Chanel’s write-up in Wikipedia.
I know, you’re wondering how I got to […]

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happy holidays from kelowna, home of the magnificent snow ghosts.
i’m here with my husband’s clan of grandparents, aunts, nieces, sisters, in-laws … i’m really one lucky duck. often i think of the difficult family situations that other people are in and i am just so very, very grateful to be part of families that […]

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another guest contribution from my good husband, glenn:
Besides liking babies, and smoking, I also watch the occasional football game.
Okay, maybe more than occasional.
Actually, my Sundays between September and December, from 9:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening (when I get called away to dinner) are dedicated primarily to watching NFL football. And sometimes […]

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anyone who uses writing for therapeutic purposes should read louise de salvo’s writing as a way of healing. quite a bit of what she writes is based on james w. pennebaker’s research on writing and health (do go to his web site, he has all kinds of neat little tests on it).
one of the […]

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today it’s exactly a year ago that i first started blogging. it’s been an interesting 108,000 words to write (that’s how many words i estimate have accumulated here so far).
one of the most surprising things that happened is that

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susan friday from the vancouver/richmond mental health network society sent me this counsellors’ creed the other day. we don’t know who authored it. there are quite a few useful ideas in there - what do you think?
1. I will give you my undivided attention. However, I cannot be your […]

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in the post about the 10 paradoxes of creative people, there was an interesting question by osmium/fuzzy logic: does my preference for hanging out with people who are on the same wavelength as i obstruct my professional need for objectivity?
how about i answer with the conclusion of a paper i wrote some time ago, entitled […]

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the articles in this blog have been featured on a number of blog carnivals so far (for example, on the disability blog carnival, the carnival of courage, and the bipolar and depression carnival).
with these good experiences, i figured i might as well start a blog carnival myself. it’ll be a monthly compendium of interesting […]

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let’s have some more dr. seuss. this is from the grinch who stole christmas. grouchy, grumpy, mean, bitter grinch has just stolen all the christmas gifts from the people in who-ville, pretended to be a nice guy by giving little cindy-lou who a glass of water, taken the last little crumb out of […]

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earlier this year, the academy for eating disorders put together a bill of rights for people with eating disorders. i’m very surprised to see that pretty much no one on the web discusses it. so i’ll start. first, here is the bill:

right to communication/partnership with health professionals
right to comprehensive assessment and treatment […]

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photographer and author marja bergen recently sent along this email. her thoughts on the topic of mental health in the community - in this case religious communities - are very important. i asked for her permission to reprint her letter here, and she graciously gave it.
i’d like to add that christmas, a time […]

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clients often want to know why something is happening. one person, let’s call her alice, might say, “if i knew why i keep eating and eating, maybe i could stop.”
let’s look at this. first, let’s investigate “why”.
why is a question about a cause. what is it that makes alice overeat?
put like […]

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