Posting therapeutic resources for helping to overcome self hatred,etc. BDD/Anorexia & Anorexia thinking recovery tools
- **Ready to Heal Your Relationship with Yourself in Eating Disorder Recovery? Try the 5 (Body) Love Languages by Melissa A. Fabello @ Everyday Feminism
- "Desire refers to the wish for things to be different— right now! This can be a wish for a different sense experience (to “feel better” or “feel happy or peaceful,” for example) or to become someone or something different than what you experience yourself as now (become the “perfect person”)......recall that no matter how many times you get what you desire, you always want more. " - no matter how muscular you become, or how thin you become you will always want to be thinner,
- "For some, recovery may mean letting go of a body seen as 'fit' and ideal by society, and instead embrace a higher body fat percentage. A woman might get praised for her six back, when she is in fact eating 1000 calories a day to maintain a body fat percentage so low that she does not even have her period. Social media rationalize eating disorders at times. It is not healthy to be ripped for fat. It is not healthy to eat restrictive. It is not healthy to obsess over weight or food." - Woman Documents Her Recovery From Anorexia on Instagram, Says She's ''Damn Proud'' of Her Weight Gain: See Her Inspirational Shots
- BDD | Books by professionals @ BBD Foundation
- The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas Cash PhD - I have this book. It's amazing.I'll go through it and take notes and post
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Treatment Manual 1st Edition by Sabine Wilhelm PhD
- Feeding the Starving Mind: A Personalized, Comprehensive Approach to Overcoming Anorexia and Other Starvation Eating Disorders by Doreen A. Samelson EdD
- Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita A. Johnston PhD.
- Coping skills chart from PDAN
- Stop feeling guilty about binge eating WLI - tons of dbt resources
- Let look at panic: Panic Self Help @ GetSelfHelp - "Thoughts are just thoughts. We look at life, and situations through distorted lenses. Just because we think we're going to die, or have another panic attack, doesn't mean that is how it really is! We are looking at the physical sensations of adrenaline or going out or to certain places or situations, through those very distorted lenses." - You're not a bad person because you overate. Rapists are bad people, you just have a bigger tummy than some other people. You're not the only person to have a belly, or to love food. It just means those are the negative thoughts you are thinking about yourself.
- FACT or OPINION? @GetSelfHelp - "FACT : Evidence to support its truth, Undisputed. Driven by rational thought Head.. OPINION: Based upon a belief or personal view (Varies according to individuals' knowledge, experience, culture, belief systems etc).Arguable - open to disagreement. Driven and reinforced by emotion.Heart : Fact:You ate food. You eat what you want to and how much of it you felt your body wanted.Opinion. You're a bad person because of how much you weigh or how fat you are. You're disgusting because of it. You're fat rolls are disgusting. Fact: Everyone has fat, some people have more than others. Even trees come in all shapes and sizes.
- "For some, recovery may mean letting go of a body seen as 'fit' and ideal by society, and instead embrace a higher body fat percentage. A woman might get praised for her six back, when she is in fact eating 1000 calories a day to maintain a body fat percentage so low that she does not even have her period. Social media rationalize eating disorders at times. It is not healthy to be ripped for fat. It is not healthy to eat restrictive. It is not healthy to obsess over weight or food." - Woman Documents Her Recovery From Anorexia on Instagram, Says She's ''Damn Proud'' of Her Weight Gain: See Her Inspirational Shots
- Recovery Record - Best Practice for Eating Disorders Treatment - APP. "Building on a platform of decades of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and self-monitoring research, we sought to deliver ‘what works’ in an engaging and elegant way on mobile devices. A simple observation - that the tedium associated with pen-and-paper monitoring detracts from treatment engagement - evolved into Recovery Record, the world’s number one mobile application for eating disorders.The Recovery Record system has attracted over 10,000 eating disorder treatment professionals and 350,000 people living with eating disorders. And that is just the beginning. Our goal is to put Recovery Record in the hands of the millions of people worldwide who need it and want it. That means partnering with treatment providers, health plans, and research institutes, adding new features, and continuing to scale and innovate quickly."
- Screening for Mental Health: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Q&A @ TWLOHA
- My Nine-Year Struggle with Anorexia by Brittany Snow by By Lisa Ingrassia @ People.com - "I always had in my mind that being skinny was better, even as a little girl. But I was never chubby or overweight. At age 12 I was on Guiding Light, and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to. It was almost fun for me, like a little experiment. Then I moved on to other diets. The cabbage diet, the salmon diet—I don't even like salmon!—the Zone, Atkins, Slim Fast. When I started losing weight, I got compliments from people I looked up to on the show. Soon, I was addicted to getting results. That's how it started, but it progressed rather quickly. Within a month, Snow lost 10 lbs. from her then 5'3" frame. My parents knew that I was dieting. A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, "Why didn't my parents notice?" But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents. But then came the sadness and thinking I was a terrible person for eating the sandwich. I wanted to be a good girl, so I'd stick to "good" foods: salad, grilled chicken, mustard. Splenda in everything. In the lunch room at school, everyone would be like, "I'm not eating fries today." I thought, "I don't eat fries at all." My fear of fries made me realize I was different from my peers. "
- Stunning woman who became anorexic after breaking up with a boyfriend manages to beat illness - and is in the running to be crowned Miss England - Caters News Agency - "“I was a healthy weight before I started dieting, but I’d always been into fitness. When I ended a long-term relationship, I wanted to find something to focus on, so I downloaded a calorie counting app and thought I would try to be super healthy.“But I became obsessed with counting calories and logging my exercise. I would feel like a failure if I went over my calorie allowance for the day. It wasn’t a healthy way to live.“When doctors told me I wasn’t thin enough for their help, I heard that as them saying I should lose more weight."
- 'Let's Stop with the Diet Talk 'artwork by Rachele Cateyes
- Voice In Recovery.com
Opposite day!! - Eat when your mind tells you not to,etc.