Atypical Anorexia: You Can’t Tell if Someone Has an Eating Disorder Just by Looking at Them
July 15, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Atypical Anorexia: A Commonly Misunderstood Eating Disorder Atypical anorexia is a subtype of anorexia nervosa characterized by the same restrictive eating behaviors and psychological issues as typical anorexia but without the patient being underweight. Individuals with atypical anorexia can have normal or higher body weights, making it more challenging to diagnose due to weight stigma […]
The Fawn Response to Trauma: It’s Not Just Fight, Flight, or Freeze
July 6, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
The Fawn Response to Trauma Explained The fawn response is a trauma reaction in which individuals respond to perceived threats by engaging in people-pleasing behaviors in order to avoid conflict and ensure their safety. Fawning is considered a survival mechanism. It is one of the four primary trauma responses, alongside fight, flight, and freeze. How […]
Connectedness From The Viewpoint Of A Chicago Therapist
June 23, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Featuring special guest writer SpringSource’s own Sarah Elfman, LSW. As humans, we have a basic need to feel connected. However, we are also inclined to avoid emotions, experiences, people, places, and things that we perceive as uncomfortable. When an individual has uncomfortable experiences that result in connection feeling unsafe, they may pull away to avoid […]
Liberation Psychology–Context Matters
June 17, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Chicago Therapists Take a Holistic Approach to Mental Health Rooted in Liberation. In celebration of Pride Month, we thought it would be a great time to explore the principles of Liberation Psychology. It’s a model for empowerment, healing, and transformation that takes into account the social and historical context of our individual backgrounds and communities. […]
June 10, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
The harm reduction model in the context of eating disorder recovery is an approach that aims to minimize the negative health effects associated with disordered eating behaviors without requiring the complete cessation of these behaviors. The harm reduction approach recognizes that for many individuals, the goal of outright abstinence from disordered eating may not be […]
Mental Health Challenges in Adolescents & Young Adults: Our Kids Need Help
June 2, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Chicago Therapists Treat Adolescent Mental Health Challenges and Young Adult Issues In The Defining Decade, psychologist and author Meg Jay discusses how harmful it is to think about the twenties as a time of “suspended adolescence” or just a time for fun before life challenges get serious. Jay notes that this decade in one’s life […]
Anxiety Therapy Chicago: Recovery Tools From Chicago Therapists
May 24, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Understanding Anxiety Disorders and How Therapy Can Help Anxiety therapy can help with racing thoughts, insomnia, lack of focus, panic attacks, and fatigue. These are just a few of the anxiety symptoms that can negatively impact our lives. We might be afraid to seek help or still believe that we can control or will away […]
Practicing Self-Compassion Will Not Make Me Lazy, Weak, or Self-Indulgent.
April 16, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Self-Compassion, Mental Health, and Eating Disorder Recovery Self-compassion plays an essential role in mental well-being and eating disorder recovery by challenging our inner critic, connecting to others through our shared humanity, building resilience, and taking a balanced, mindful approach to suffering. In This Article Self-Compassion: From The Journal of Eating Disorders Self-compassion is associated with […]
Overcoming Toxic Diet Culture – Improve Your Relationship With Food and Find Peace With Your Body.
April 3, 2024 SpringSource: Eating, Weight & Mood Disorders
Why does diet culture persist when studies have shown that diets do not work long-term 95% of the time? Worse yet, diets can cause additional harm with a greater risk of disordered eating or a full-blown eating disorder developing. Perhaps we should reevaluate just what exactly is going on here.
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