Knocking Out Anorexia

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I've spent time in a psych hospital, working on the patient records of people being treated for anorexia and other eating disorders. I came away with one distinct impression about that:

Absolute hell for all concerned.

If you or someone you know is suffering with an eating disorder, I highly recommend reading this blog and following it over time: Anorexia 101.

Here's Part 2: From Diet to Anorexia.

I'll be guest-blogging about comforting foods that don't damage waistlines in the near future. Stand by for updates about some nutritional news YOU Need to know!

Meanwhile, you can buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It can do a lot for you and/or a loved one. Buy it at Booklocker! 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

You don't have to dig your grave with your mouth! Reach out to loved ones and medical professionals for necessary help.

 

How to Overcome Eating Disorders

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I've worked in psychiatric settings where people with eating disorders sought therapy. And I've known anorexics among social acquaintances. The agony for such people and their loved ones is numbing, overwhelming.

The good news is that as time continues to unfold, better insight and therapies come to the fore.

Please read this New York Times feature story The Insider's Guides to Overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia.

My prayers are with the people

who need this help.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge lists several resources for finding therapists you or someone you know might need. Buy it at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4244.html

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Here's Help for Coping with Anorexia, Bulimia, & Poor Body Image!

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If you want to help yourself or someone suffering Anorexia, Bulimia, and the Poor Body Image that usually goes with those eating disorders, watch this all on your own or with that suffering acquaintance:




It's a start on the road to better emotional and physical health.

If you want to find a competent mental health therapist to help that recovery along, seek out their contact information in the Global Resources section of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.


You're beautiful as you are. Artifice is not your reality, or anyone's.

Praying for your success,



Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Solutions for Ill People Who Won't or Can't Eat

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Let's continue the line of thought about good nutrition.

The need for nutrition is true for any seriously ill person, no matter who is facing a medical crisis or why. Look at the situation from the situation of a sick child, elderly person, or anyone who's ill and their worldview. Do they lack teeth? Do they have mouth sores that will be further irritated by food and hot or cold temperatures? Is the person's gag reflex going to be problematic?

Are emotions part of the problem?

Scolding is NOT appropriate. Making fun of the person refusing or unable to eat is cruel, not helpful. The same is true for guilt trips.

Cook up a meal and a plan to get the suffering person to eat it. Focus on pleasure, soothing results, and compassion.

Find solutions.

Use blenders to create smooth, easily swallowed textures (hospitals call blended food "puree"). Straws make food fun for little ones sipping blended food with soup or water added to it.



Warmish jell-o is a quick picker-upper for someone trying to build strength to swallow more nutritious fare (it also soothes sore throats).

Use towels as bibs for larger diners who spill food despite their best efforts to be neat. DO NOT COMPLAIN about the laundry this will cause.

Here's a nice dessert for everyone involved: by helping the ill person to eat better, you'll feel better for expressing a level of kindness unparalleled in the medical world.

Click on I'm Buying "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" to Learn More About Promoting Health.



To your good health,

Yojeved Golani

Coping with a Medical Crisis?

Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Can Anorexics Recover?

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Anorexia is not a topic covered in my book, though I provide information for locating mental health therapists who address any problem in my book's RESOURCES section.

Click on STARVING IN THE LAND OF PLENTY if you'd appreciate a friendly look at one father's efforts to save his child from this baffling problem.

When you need to find a competent mental health therapist somewhere in this perplexing world, BUY MY BOOK and see the RESOURCES section at the back. It's filled with relevant contact information.

My heart goes out to you and to the person starving themselves.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life