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  • Anorexia nervosa, neurobiology, and family-based treatment

    sume eating. If they were still alive. Bruch’s observations dictated eating-disorders treatments for decades, treatments that led to spectacularly ineffective results. Only about 35% of people with anorexia recovered; another 20% died, of starvation or suicide; and the rest lived with some level of chronic illness for the rest of their lives. Not a great track record, overall, and especially devastating for women, who suffer from anorexia at a ra…

    Authored by on August 10, 2012

  • I Am Mental Illness: Anorexia–Biting Back

    …nd I was fainting several times a day. A normal person would have begun to eat long before. But for someone with anorexia nervosa, the concept of “just eat” was far from simple. I was diagnosed with anorexia shortly before my 21st birthday, although I had begun restricting my food and exercising more several years before. In many ways, my story sounds like your stereotypical eating disorder saga: Young White Girl Feels Fat, Loses Weight, Can’t St…

    Authored by on January 25, 2013

  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …ial social aspect of this change, and the one thing that might, when it comes to autism, elevate the DSM-5 above the level of doorstop. [Image credit: Dave Bullock, UK, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license.]…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

  • Are children today really suffering nature deficit disorder (TM)?

    …7;t have television to keep them indoors, they also didn’t have child labor laws. The result was that children who once might have been at work at age 4 in a field were now at work at age 3 or 4 in a factory, putting in 12 or so hours a day before stepping out into the coal-smoked, animal-dung-scented air of the city.  Child labor wasn’t something confined to Industrial Revolution Britain, and it continues today, both for agriculture…

    Authored by on April 30, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …molecules themselves break down into a surprisingly small number of building blocks. The proteins that make up all of the living things on this planet and ensure their appropriate structure and smooth function consist of only 20 different kinds of building blocks. Nucleic acids, specifically DNA, are even more basic: only four different kinds of molecules provide the materials to build the countless different genetic codes that translate into all…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Depressing genes

    Can depression be a matter of genetic fate? by Siobhan Mitchell          [This post is the latest installment in our I Am Mental Illness series.] What if you could know if you were fated to be depressed? With the rise of personal genotyping services such as 23andme, almost can find out what their psychiatric ‘fate’ will be, but what do you do with this information once you have it? When I first considered testing myself for depressio…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

  • Avoidant personality disorder

    …mostly non-fiction), writes poetry, and plays with her cats.] You can find more information about avoidant personality disorder here and here. [Image credit: Danielle Blue, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 License.]…

    Authored by on March 29, 2013

  • Thanks, Mom, for not eating me

    …he’s so cute, I could just eat him up!” No, grandma. Just … no. Happy Mother’s Day! Supporting Literature J. Bartlett,  Filial cannibalism in burying beetles, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1987), pp. 179-183 [PDF] Hope Klug and Michael B. Bonsall, When to Care for, Abandon, or Eat Your Offspring: The Evolution of Parental Care and Filial Cannibalism, The American Naturalist, Vol. 170, No. 6 (Decembe…

    Authored by on May 13, 2013

  • My bipolar life

    …last message, so that no one would be sending out the police. All that was going to happen is one day I would be alive. The next I would be dead. Consequences be damned. Well, the DKA didn’t kill me on day 1. Nor on day 2. What it did do was deplete my blood potassium, which caused a worse problem, an uncontrolled, and very painful heart rate. You see, I didn’t quite think this through as carefully as I should have. Through a strange…

    Authored by on February 8, 2013

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