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Eating Disorders Can Disguise Themselves as Healthy Weight Loss

March 24, 2015 / Articles>Eating Disorders

We now understand that people suffering from eating disorders do not have to fit the severely underweight stereotype associated with anorexia nervosa. Unfortunately, this means that it can be even more difficult to recognize and properly diagnose people who are suffering from these potentially life-threatening illnesses. One of the most insidious realities that we have […]

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Alexithymia Further Diminishes Lives of People With Alcoholism

March 24, 2015 / Articles>Early Recovery

The presence of alexithymia (a poor ability to identify emotions or tell the difference between various emotional states) may help predict a reduced quality of life in people affected by alcoholism, according to new findings from a multinational team of researchers.

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Top Apps for Addiction and Recovery

March 24, 2015 / Recovery

It seems there truly is an app for everything, including those designed just for people struggling with addiction. Whether you are trying to moderate your drinking, overcome a food addiction, avoid relapse in recovery or are even attempting to curb a smartphone addiction, there is an app for you. Research into how effective these apps

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Don’t Worry About Whether Sex Addiction Is ‘Real’—Just Get Help

March 20, 2015 / Articles>Mental Health

There is a debate raging about whether sexual addiction is a “real” addiction. Skeptics say that there is little peer-reviewed scientific evidence in support of sex addiction and that some evidence actually contradicts the existence of sexual addiction. The official authority on psychological disorders—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—has so far rejected appeals

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Study Finds Link between Eating Disorders and Adult-Onset Diabetes

March 17, 2015 / Articles>Addiction Research

A new study has uncovered a link between eating disorders and the development of adult-onset diabetes, providing evidence that impulse control issues and depression may lead to an increased likelihood of developing the condition. This is the first time such a link has been uncovered, and in addition to providing further insight into the factors

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Bipolar Disorder: Struggling with Aggression

March 14, 2015 / Articles>Mental Health

Bipolar disorder is a serious mood disorder that can make a person feel like they are on an emotional roller-coaster ride. The illness is treatable with a combination of medication, disciplined lifestyle and regular counseling. People with all forms of bipolar disorder have trouble with extreme emotions. A recent study reveals that extreme aggression is

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Mindfulness Can Help Treat Sex Addiction

March 12, 2015 / Articles>Sex Addiction

Mindfulness is the widely accepted term for a meditative practice designed to increase moment-to-moment awareness and thereby generate an increased sense of well-being. Numerous studies support the usefulness of this approach in a range of contexts related to both physical and mental health. In a study published in 2014 in the Journal of Clinical Psychology,

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How to Have a Sober St. Patrick’s Day

March 11, 2015 / Recovery

St. Patrick’s Day is supposed to be a holiday to celebrate the saint who, they say, drove the snakes from Ireland. It has long been a day of particularly rowdy celebration because the saint’s day is a break in the middle of Lenten fasting, a day when Irish Catholics are allowed to cut loose during

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Gambling Addicts Motivated by Big Financial Rewards

March 8, 2015 / Articles>Addiction Research

People diagnosed with gambling disorder are much more likely to prefer gambling situations that provide large financial rewards in return for a heightened level of risk, a new study has found.

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Quitting Smoking Boon to People in Alcohol Treatment

March 6, 2015 / Articles>Addiction Research

Many alcohol treatment programs avoid addressing smoking-related issues for fear of interrupting their primary treatment goals. But in a study published in September 2014 in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers from three American universities looked at the impact that smoking cessation has on the course of alcohol treatment and found that smoking cessation can cut

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