Chronic Illness and Health Anxiety
If you live with chronic illness, it’s likely that you’ve experienced health anxiety. It’s a normal response to illness to fear disease progression or recurrence. Will our medications continue working? If not, will new treatments come along that will help…
Why Be a Non-Conventionalist?
In a previous post, I introduced non-conventionalism, the idea that for many social conventions—and many more than people typically think—there are no good reasons to conform, and sometimes there are even good reasons to go against them. This contrasts to…
Improving Body Image in Adolescents With an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders are severe mental disorders that significantly impact a person’s emotional well-being, physical health, and everyday functioning. All eating disorders are characterized by disturbances in eating behavior and food-related attitudes. Furthermore, some eating disorders, such as bulimia nervosa and…