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Anxiety: How Does Self-Care Help?

Anxiety, financial crises, economic uncertainty, incurable illness, quarantine and death penetrate the bubble of safety and security now. Coronavirus, stock market plummeting, travel limited, no clear leadership, conflicting perspectives in duration and consequences.

This disruptive state is enough to trigger binge eating and anxiety attacks.

In the face of such powerful disrupters, what can we do for ourselves and others?

Eating Disorder thinking seems to be ignored by FDA advisors. The newest advisory coming out of the FDA on Medscape News runs this headline over a thorough article by Michael O'Riordan: FDA Advisors Recommend Approval of Obesity Drug Qnexa.

When I saw the headline, My five-year bulimia nightmare, by Diane Keaton, I felt pangs of sorrow and a tender connection with Diane.

I found a "Called Out" comment on Forbes Magazine attacking obese people outrageous. I address it here.

Meghan Casserly has a wonderful article, "Eating Disorders and the Executive Woman," running in Forbes Magazine. She describes the call to anorexia that many professional women answer by restricting themselves to the point of endangering their health and way of life. But she doesn't address the call to overeat or binge eat that creates overweight or obesity.

The outrageous comment contains this excerpt: