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recoveryisbeautiful: What Is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar in a…

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recoveryisbeautiful: What Is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar in a Nutshell (visual) Signs and Symptoms of Bipolar I vs. Bipolar II Bipolar Disorder vs. Borderline Personality Disorder: What’s the Difference? Living with Bipolar Disorder Keeping Your Balance Six Key Coping Strategies Support and Self-Help Coping with Mania What Does Being Manic Feel Like? Suggestions for Managing and Coping with Mania Coping with Depression 8 Ways to Actively Fight Depression 10 Ways to Cope with Depression 21 Tips to Keep Your Shit Together When You’re Depressed Supporting Someone with Bipolar Disorder Helping a Loved One with Bipolar Disorder                   – Helping a Loved One Manage a Manic Episode                  – 10 Ways to Show Love to Someone with Depression Supporting Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Family and Friends Loving Someone Who is Manic Depressive 8 Ways to Help Your…

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recoveryisbeautiful: I personally find this to be one of the…

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recoveryisbeautiful: I personally find this to be one of the most important facts about eating disorders because it is the most overlooked. People always seem to forget about all the males out there suffering, especially when it comes to eating disorders.  Males can have diabetes.Males can have cancer.Males can suffer depression or anxiety.So why can’t people understand that males also can suffer an eating disorder? Eating disorders, like all other diseases and mental health issues, do not descriminate. Not against age, not against sexual orientation, not against ethnicity, not against sex. Don’t forget about the boys and men. Please share <3</em>

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Understanding Food Addiction

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Food, like chemical substances, can be addicting. Many people use food as a comfort when feeling down, depressed, anxious, stressed or angry. Foods high in sugar, salt, starch and fat are the most addictive and can trigger the brain with “feel-good” chemicals, similarly to heroin or cocaine. When food addicts experience pleasure from feel-good chemicals, such as dopamine that are released after eating certain foods, they quickly feel the need to eat again. An addiction to food can also lead to a tolerance of food, meaning the food addict becomes less and less satisfied by food, leading them to eat more. Scientists believe this is the link between food addiction and obesity. Like an addiction to drugs or alcohol, food addicts will struggle to simply …

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Do’s and Don’ts of Healthy Dieting and Healthy Weight Loss

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It seems our society has a never-ending fixation on weight loss and being thin. While shedding excess weight can mean a healthier, more energized you, there are right ways and wrong ways to go about dieting and weight loss. Here are some do’s and don’ts of healthy dieting and weight loss. Do Find healthy alternatives to your favorite “guilty pleasure” foods. If you’ve got a sweet tooth, or tend to get the munchies during the day, take some time to find healthy alternatives that satisfy your cravings without adding extra inches around your waistline. Eat foods that will keep you feeling fuller longer. Doing so will help you avoid overeating. Protein and fiber-rich foods are the best foods for satisfying appetite. Apples, whole grains, …

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Tennie Invited to Present at Kripalu Yoga, Meditation and Recovery Conference

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Everyone has the ability to identify and recognize their addictions and find the strength to overcome them. This can be accomplished through connecting with your inner wholeness. The Yoga, Meditation and Recovery Conference held at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health aims to bring together leaders from “a wide variety of backgrounds and modalities,” anyone in recovery from addiction and their family members. Using yoga and meditation, these leaders will guide attendees through an exploration of recovery from their addictions. Tennie is one of the six presenters of the conference. The other presenters include Rolf Gates, Gabrielle Bernstein, Noah Levine, Tommy Rosen and Nikki Myers. Each day of the conference will begin with asana (firm and relaxed seated position) and meditation practices followed by workshops …

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Anorexia: An Overview

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We all at one point or another look in the mirror and fixate on something we’d like to change. If only we were taller, more attractive, or thinner… When these thoughts become obsessive and start taking over our lives, they can mutate in to a multitude of unhealthy patterns. For many, the thought of gaining weight is such a devastating prospect that they will literally do anything to keep it off, including making themselves sick. This is fertile grounds for eating disorders to develop, including anorexia. What Is Anorexia? Anorexia Nervosa is a complex eating disorder that has three signifying features: 1. An unwillingness to maintain a healthy body weight 2. A distorted body image 3. A heightened, intense fear of putting on weight Though it is more common …

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Carried feelings that are diagnosed or mis-diagnosed as psychiatric disorders.

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By Carrie Willey, PhD, LPC (Clinical Director) Pia Mellody has written extensively about Induced Feelings or Carried Feelings. This is the feeling energy that is absorbed by children in a dysfunctional family. When the parents or the Major Caregivers are unwilling to own or unconscious about their feelings, the children take that energy on. For example, if a mother rages, spewing anger all around, the child, because he/she is egocentric, believes that energy truly belongs to him/her and it is stored in the cellular memory of the body. If the caregiver is willing to take ownership, for example, the mother explains to the child that she is angry about a situation, but it has nothing to do with the child, then the child does not …

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Understanding Compulsive Overeating

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Some call it a food addiction. Others refer to it as compulsive overeating. No matter the label, researchers and doctors agree on one thing: fat, salt and sugar can alter the brain chemistry, making it more difficult to resist eating more. In his book, “The End of Overeating”, former FDA commissioner David Kessler, MD explains that there are similarities between an individual who struggles with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, and someone who struggles with an addiction to food (or overeating). The key is to find the driving force behind the behavior and learn how to change it. Factors that may contribute to overeating Feel good foods: Foods high in sugar, fat and salt release a “feel good” hormone in the brain. Essentially, this reaction …