tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860052019354199263.post84734704434098854..comments2023-03-21T04:45:28.132-07:00Comments on Velvet Steamroller: Legitimizing Binge Eating DisorderAutumn Whitefield-Madranohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03379314479257695986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860052019354199263.post-41565193444803762052009-12-03T08:57:42.216-08:002009-12-03T08:57:42.216-08:00I wholly agree--it's impossible to treat an ea...I wholly agree--it's impossible to treat an eating disorder with medication alone (unless it's the medication that's prompting it in the first place). But what Healy is critiquing applies to mental illness as a whole, really. He's treating BED as though both practitioners and sufferers will think a pill can cure it all. But practitioners and sufferers of eating disorders that have already been legitimized by the medical community--bulimia and anorexia--use medication AND behavioral therapy AND family therapy AND talk therapy. For Lane to single out BED, to me, stinks of fat prejudice.<br /><br />What medicalizing depression and other mood disorders has done has led to a great degree of overprescription. But it's also led to acceptance and awareness of those disorders as legitimate, which has decreased their negative stigma. I think in this day of the "obesity epidemic," to remove the negative stigma of BED (not all sufferers are obese, but many are) feels risky.Autumn Whitefield-Madranohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379314479257695986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5860052019354199263.post-84737708439975740302009-11-25T13:15:08.326-08:002009-11-25T13:15:08.326-08:00I agree that Healy's articles should have feat...I agree that Healy's articles should have featured more perspectives, but I actually think Lane is right that eating disorders are psychological matters rather than psychiatric ones. If only more clinicians treated them in that way, we'd have a better understanding of why people over- and undereat.Angelanoreply@blogger.com