Synopses & Reviews
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 checklists help you determine whether you are suffering form an eating disorder and, if so, what impact the disorder is having or may soon have on your health. You’ll also get plenty of help in finding the right therapist, evaluating the latest treatments, and learning how to support recovery on a day-by-day basis. Discover how to:
- Identify eating disorder warning signs
- Set yourself on a sound and successful path to recovery
- Recognize companion disorders and addictions
- Handle anxiety and emotional eating
- Survive setbacks
- Approach someone about getting treatment
- Treat eating disorders in men, children, and the elderly
- Help a sibling, friend, or partner with and eating disorder
- Benefit from recovery in ways you never imagined
Complete with helpful lists of recovery dos and don’ts, Eating Disorders For Dummies is an immensely important resource for anyone who wants to recover — or help a loved one recover — from one of these disabling conditions and regain a healthy and energetic life.
Synopsis
Find out how to set yourself on a sound and successful path of recoveryFind treatment and support and regain control of your life
Think you — or someone you love — has an eating disorder? This practical, reassuring guide explains anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder in plain English, as well as other disorders such as bigorexia and compulsive exercising. Informative checklists help you determine if you are suffering from an eating disorder, as well as the serious medical impacts. You'll see how to find the right therapist, evaluate the latest treatments, and support your — or your loved one's — recovery in day-to-day living.
Discover how to:
Identify the warning signs
Recognize companion disorders and addictions
Handle anxiety and emotional eating
Survive setbacks
Approach someone about getting treatment
Treat disorders in men, children, or the elderly
Synopsis
Eating Disorders For Dummiesserves 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.
Synopsis
Eating Disorders For Dummiesserves as a comprehensive, practical guide for sufferers and their loved ones covering anorexia, bulimia, and other disorders/syndromes such as binging and night eating syndrome. It shows readers how to access the latest treatment techniques, deal with eating and exercise in and out of the home, find a good therapist, and take charge of ensuring recovery. It also explores issues like depression and anxiety and includes questionnaires, checklists for ongoing evaluation, and charts for monitoring and developing positive eating patterns.
About the Author
Susan Schulherr, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who has had a private psychotherapy practice in New York City for nearly 30 years. She has worked with people with eating disorders for over 20 of those years. Her chapter on treating binge eating disorder appears in the 2005 book,
EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing (Shapiro, Norton). Her article, “The Binge–Diet Cycle: Shedding New Light, Finding New Exits,” was published in
Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention (1998). She has presented workshops at the local and national level on eating disorders and on issues of weight and eating to both professional and nonprofessional audiences.
Ms. Schulherr is a trained family and couples therapist. She has extensive experience in the trauma specialty approaches of EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, each of which she has adapted for the treatment of eating disorders.
Table of Contents
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 While Supporting 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.