Sylvester Stallone Bulimia: What His Story Reveals About Men and Eating Disorders
It is 5 a.m., and there’s a man already in the gym. He is lean. People have told him so for years. He does not believe them, and he has not believed them in a long time. (This is a composite of patterns I see in my practice, not a single patient.) He eats what
When the Rules Around Food Are Actually OCD
He counted his chews. Not roughly, not as a habit – exactly. Thirty-two per bite, every bite, and if he lost count he started the bite over. His parents thought it was a strange eating disorder ritual. His prior therapist treated it as one. It took months before anyone asked the question that mattered: was
Eating Disorders in Athletes: Warning Signs & Help
Practice ends at six. She is the last one still running sprints, alone, after the coach has gone home. Nobody made her stay. She tells her parents it is because she wants to make varsity. That is true. It is also not the whole truth. At dinner she pushes food around her plate and talks
Eating Disorders in Sorority Life: What Happens Behind the Bathroom Door
There is a scale in the bathroom. Twenty girls share that bathroom. By nine in the morning, most of them have already stepped on it. That image came up almost in passing on a recent episode of Hilltop’s Nourish and Empower podcast, when Lindsay James, LCSW was describing what recruitment season can actually look like
Why Your Attachment Style Might Be Running Your Eating Disorder
She sat across from me and said something she’d never said out loud before: “I don’t actually think this is about food. I think it’s about needing to not need anyone.” She was 26. She’d been in and out of treatment for six years. Every program had given her meal plans, exposure work, cognitive restructuring
Eating Disorders in Men: What KJ Apa’s Story Reveals
He orders three Big Macs at 2 a.m. He eats fast, half the bag gone before the regret even lands. Then he carries the rest outside so he won’t finish it. Then he makes himself sick anyway, because the food is already inside him and that isn’t good enough. Then, still hungry, he goes looking
Orthorexia Nervosa Vs. Anorexia Nervosa
Two restrictive types of eating disorders with key differences. At Hilltop Behavioral Health in Summit, NJ, we see orthorexia and anorexia confused for one another often, sometimes even by the person living with one of them. Getting the distinction right matters, because it shapes what treatment actually looks like. Many people are familiar with anorexia
Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders in New Jersey
Dinner has become a battleground. Every meal turns into negotiation, or tears, or silence that says more than words would. You have tried staying calm. You have tried reasoning. You have tried letting it go for one night just to keep the peace. None of it holds, and somewhere underneath the exhaustion you are starting
Vacation Food Anxiety in Recovery: What We Want Every Family to Know
You’ve probably already done a lot of research, sat through difficult conversations, and learned more about nutrition and mental health than you ever expected. But when a family trip or spring break comes up, a familiar knot of worry can return, Will I or my loved one be okay? Will this set them back? How
Understanding the Eating Disorder Voice: Why Recovery Can Feel Like a Battle Within
It isn’t the food, it isn’t the routines, it’s not even the physical symptoms; it’s the quiet. There’s a persistent battle happening inside the mind. “One of the trickiest things that goes on for someone with an eating disorder is the battle of wills that takes place in the mind.” You may desperately want to