It is so easy these days to hide an eating disorder behind the guise of
“healthy living” or a passion for health food and exercise. Actually,
most people with eating disorders hide the eating disorders from
themselves under the guise of healthy living. Yep! Most people with
eating disorders don’t even know they have eating disorders until they
are way into the disorder.
Forming a healthy relationship with food is so important and so difficult. If you are interested in reading more about our relationship with eating, The Fat Nutritionist is a great resource.
“I spent a lot of time babysitting [my siblings] as a teenager and I think it’s
been a challenge for me to separate out feeling like I’m a parent to
them.”
This has often caused rifts between the siblings into
adulthood, Rosenfeld says. “I’ve always been somebody who thinks it’s my
job to offer help, care, and advice even when it’s not asked for.”
How does someone learn that becoming self-reliant is safer than
trusting others? Nakazawa believes that in destructive parentification,
“you don’t have a reliable adult to turn to.” And if a child’s early
experiences at home consisted of making sure everyone else’s needs were
met, then the “child doesn’t feel seen.
This sense of
responsibility and compulsive caretaking can follow them into future
relationships as well. “You tend to project it onto other people in your
life,” Rosenfeld says. This isn’t surprising, claims Jenny Macfie, an
associate director of clinical training at the University of Tennessee
and another prominent parentification researcher, as “adults who report
role confusion in their childhoods may have difficulty with their
identity development,” and this in turn, can affect a person’s romantic
relationships.
We’re only beginning to understand the interplay between sibling dynamics, parental neglect, and health outcomes later in life. We need to see more research on prevention and treatment options.
This is a really smart idea - raising awareness of the proper use of 911 is essential in order to reduce wait times for those in need by avoiding unnecessary interventions that do not require first responders.
A group based at UBC is showcasing fine art images and concept
photography for Men’s Health Week, with the hopes of encouraging men to
reach out and fight depression.
Men are less likely to seek help for mental health issues - let’s break that stigma and model how seeking help makes you no less of a person.
The premise of the pop-up restaurant, which was in a trial period from
June 2 – June 4, 2017, was that the staff who have dementia may get your
order wrong. But if you go in knowing this upfront, it changes your
perception about those who suffer from brain disease. The experience
makes you realize that with a little bit of understanding on our part
dementia patients can be functioning members of society.
Food blogger Mizuho Kudo visited The Restaurant of Order Mistakes and
had a blast. She originally ordered a hamburger but ended up having
gyoza dumplings instead, but everything turned out to be unexpectedly
delicious. Kudo also claimed that the waiters were full of smiles and
seemed to be having tons of fun.
It’s great to see people with dementia living full lives and contributing to their communities!
The idea is this: If some people are going to use heroin no matter what, it’s better to give them a safe source of the stuff and a safe place to inject it, rather than letting them pick it up on the street — laced with who knows what — and possibly overdose without medical supervision. Patients can not only avoid death by overdose but otherwise go about their lives without stealing or committing other crimes to obtain heroin.
And it isn’t some wild-eyed theory; the scientific research almost unanimously backs it up, and Crosstown’s own experience shows it can make a difference in drug users’ lives.
Notions
of willpower are easily stigmatizing: It becomes OK to dismantle social
safety nets if poverty is a problem of financial discipline, or if
health is one of personal discipline. An extreme example is the punitive
approach of our endless drug war, which dismisses substance use
problems as primarily the result of individual choices.
Such a fantastic read on a topic that permeates our health and social systems.
We’re starting our “metabolism” module at med school this week, and I’m dreading it with every fibre of my being. You see, I am going to be a doctor, and I am fat.
I’m not the type of fat you feel after you’ve had a big lunch, and your usually flat belly is protesting against the waistband of your jeans. I’m the real kind. My BMI hovers a couple of points below “morbidly obese”.
I worry a lot about what people will think of me as a fat doctor. For the smartarses among you, of course I’ve tried to be non-fat, it goes without saying. The thing is though, bodies don’t really like weighing less all of a sudden and are pretty good at reversing things in the long run. Mostly my body settles back to the same size 18 shape eventually.
I am always aware of my fatness, but perhaps more so here at medical school. We are training to work with bodies, and mine is a type of body we warn our patients not to have. It is the first thing described in every list of ‘modifiable risk factors’. A colleague suggests “just don’t let yourself get too fat” as we talk about preventing a certain type of cancer. A final exam question asks us to list four poor health outcomes associated with obesity. I sit through lectures with slides that have sniggering titles like “how BIG is the problem?”
![When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life
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