What to do if you suspect you have an eating disorder.
I am...my "to read" list makes me cry. A lot >.>;;
I never feel bad for purchasing books...I am hitting a physical space limitation myself. Unfortunately the kindle doesn't seem to care about that!
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
That is a good question! I always get psych ebooks or digital and not audio formats, so unsure. I also do mostly DBT these days (DBT will eclipse CBT as BED treatment in general, I predict). One of my favorite books is a decent DBT ebook called Calming the Emotional Storm.
Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks is a very good print book, but I've never listened to the audio version. Still, if unabridged it may be worth it. I tend to dislike making recommendations for things I haven't used, though.
Anything by Dr. Peter Levine is also really helpful...while not about CBT, he has written extensively about trauma, and the principals can also apply to eating disorders as there is some overlap in terms of pathology (if not actuality).
An audiobook I do frequently suggest to WLS peeps, and one that helped push me into being an integrated health clinician, is When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate. It discusses the connections between stress and disease, as there are many which can prove quite insidious. Not CBT either, but though it doesn't directly talk about eating necessarily, all of the principals still apply if you want a foundational understanding.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Forgot to add, there's a strong lack of decent-ish books that are non-clinical. If you want clinical ones I can see what's available on audiobook format, though even I fall asleep reading those so they may not be good for driving, lol!
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
on 6/15/18 8:18 am - Amarillo, TX
Thank you so much for this post! I got a few books ordered last night thanks to your recommendations!
Mel
on 6/18/18 7:11 am
Donna we are really lucky to have you here. My surgeon never talked about eating disorders, not once.
when I was young I was a binge eater. What is so screwed up is I saw on tv that you can throw up ice cream very easily without it hurting.
therapy is one thing that helps me. Immensely. I am on meds I wi**** would just fix me. But now down the road I know we have to really look at ourselves and be honest. Not always an easy task.
Thank you for posting
