Extreme Picky Eating (EPE) is a selective eating disorder that doesn’t fall into the category of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), namely because it hasn’t been sustained for long enough. So, who qualifies for this diagnosis, and what can we do to help prevent it from progressing into full blown ARFID?
“What does the daughter of a narcissistic mother look like?”
Years ago, I followed a case of a very young woman who had tremendous and seemingly unfounded anger and pain in relation to her mother. Should the two be in a room together, the teenager would become intermittently volatile, withdrawn, hostile and tearful. Clinicians who worked on the case could not make sense of the behavior.
To piggyback on a previous post about couples in communication, I must add a new post altogether. I see couples who enter into counseling with an immediate, and plaguing question. “Am I, or is my spouse a narcissist? And, if so, can this marriage or relationship be saved?”
“Communication Breakdown, It’s Always The Same.”
Do you and your partner fight about the most mundane things? Do patterns of miscommunication, misunderstandings and hurt feelings cycle through again and again, often without resolution? If so, couples counseling may help.
Eating Disorders are an array of mental disorders that display unusual eating behaviors or habits with serious health consequences. They are quite prevalent, affecting more than 24 million Americans.
All eating disorders are rooted in an obsession with food, the shape of one’s body or body weight.
These mental disorders affect people physically, psychologically and socially and they can be fatal. Eating disorders are the leading cause of death in teenagers in the U.S.
The symptoms of eating disorders are food restriction, binges on food, and purging by vomiting or by over-exercising.
At LIFT, we work with mothers who have been told, or have read, that they need to do more for themselves. “I need to do more self-care!,” we hear moaned (and wail to ourselves.). The road to self-acceptance is paved with paradox. Is it not satirical to beat yourself up for failing to “self-care?” The failure to pursue self-care has become a weapon women use to beat themselves and each other with – yet another thing to feel badly about ourselves for. Evidence of something else amiss: low-self worth, self-sabotage, low-self-esteem. Or is it?
If you’d like to learn more about how to care for yourself in the season that you’re in, please call ☎️: 203-916-4673, or email mary@liftupwellness.com)
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