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Support For Your Partner During National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012
February 26th through March 3rd is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and the posts on Partners in Wellness this week will address how eating disorders may be impacting your partner and your...
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5 Ways to Answer “Do I Look Fat in This?”
When your partner, friend, sister, or other person in your life asks the question, it might seem as if the only appropriate answer is “No.” It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t moment because...
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Ten Ways to Support Someone With An Eating Disorder
As we wrap up National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012, one of the most frequent questions those of us who treat people with eating disorders get asked from partners, families, and friends is,...
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The Costs of NOT Treating Mental Illness
It’s no secret that health insurance is expensive, and paying for mental health services can be outrageous as well. When you and your partner have a large pile of bills to pay, it can make a difficult...
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Is Your Partner At Risk for an Eating Disorder?
Awareness that eating disorders do not just affect teenaged, white females is growing. Your partner–male or female–may have struggled with an eating disorder as a young person, which puts them at risk...
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Talking to Kids About a Parent’s Mental Illness: Part 1
When a parent is mentally ill, children are often confused, scared, angry, and/or worried. Depending on their ages, how long the parent has been symptomatic, and experiences with Mom or Dad being sick,...
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Talking to Kids About a Parent’s Mental Illness: Part 2
Today’s post is Part 2 on how to help kids who have a parent with a mental illness. In Part 1, we discussed how kids think about and react to having an ill parent. This post will address how to talk...
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Does Your Partner Feel Emotionally Safe?
When you have a partner with mental illness, you are likely always on alert for behaviors that might indicate the illness is progressing. Was that laugh too loud, and a sign of impending mania?…Does...
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Migraine Monday? Manic Monday? or MARVELOUS Monday?
Monday?! Do you like Mondays?? “Mon” (my) Day! Recuperating from the week-ends’ busy activity?! Migraine Monday? Meditative Monday? Marvelous Monday? or Manic Monday? (The Bangles come to mind.) Hope...
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What are You Engineering?
Happy Saturday Readers! Swirling subjects are twirling in my mind like a baton. What topic will stick and adhere…here on this post? Or hit me off the head and hopefully knock some sense into me. What...
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