www.FindHealthPros.com Latest Articles FindHealthPros.com Latest Articles FindHealthPros.com FindHealthPros.com 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 en Copyright (c) 2003-2013 FindHealthPros.com FindHealthPros.com daily 1 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=article&id=6608 So it was difficult to grasp why my struggle to come forward, to come out, about an eating disorder fell on deaf ears. The promise of support that had been there a decade earlier, when I announced I was gay, seemed forgotten, cowered under the shame of a having a woman's illness. I knew eating disorders affected women disproportionately (a 1997 study suggests a 1:6 ratio), but I knew from the most cursory scan of the gay community that we were a body-obsessed bunch. Psychotherapy 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=article&id=6509 Social networking sites like YouTube are delivering a tide of pro-anorexia messages, according to a recent review of 140 videos containing about 11 hours of video content. After three physicians reviewed the content, nearly 30% of the videos were found to be pro-anorexia (J Med Internet Res 2013; 15(2):e30) doi 10.2196/jmir2237). Psychotherapy 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=article&id=6508 Never diet. It is clinically documented that dieting is the gateway to eating disorders. We have a $40 billion diet industry in this country that sells us a product that fails 95% of the time. We should all be much smarter than that. Psychotherapy 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=article&id=6450 Social anxiety is defined as fear of being negatively evaluated by others while in a social setting. Some 15% of the general population have levels of social anxiety that disrupt daily functioning and symptoms of social anxiety tend to increase throughout adolescence. Psychotherapy 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700 http://www.findhealthpros.com/index.php?cmd=article&id=6376 If one thinks of temperament as the genetic wiring of personality, then character consists of the circuit boards that route, suppress, or facilitate the messages carried by those wires. In other words, character is one of the mechanisms by which we manage temperament. Psychotherapy 2013-05-21T13:04:10-0700