BINGE CRAZY (eBook)

A Psychotherapist's Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery

Natalie Gold (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
356 Seiten
changehappens (Verlag)
978-1-9994656-2-9 (ISBN)

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In Binge Crazy, therapist Natalie Gold discloses her lived experience to reveal how binge eating disorder and food addiction develops, how it impacts the individual and their loved ones, and the complex road to recovery. From a Toronto mental hospital to a talk show in London, England, she chronicles over 50 years of failure and success. Binge Crazy is really about relationships, especially the author's love-hate affair with food and eating. ';There was never enough, could never be enough food to satisfy what was wrong inside,' says Gold. The author exposes aspects of her life that also reflect those of her clients and others who struggle.Binge Crazy is not the standard ';how to' book – but it is an example of what not to do. It is a daringly honest portrayal of what it's like to be inside the head and heart of someone who suffers from out-of-control eating, and the zigzag recovery process. Binge Crazy formed the basis for Gold's chapter on severe food addiction for the textbook, Processed Food Addiction, Foundations, Assessment and Recovery (Taylor & Francis), since she met all eleven substance use criteria in the definitive mental health reference, the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fifth Edition,(APA, 2013).Now a Registered Psychotherapist, Gold is an honors graduate of Ryerson University (Toronto), holds a graduate certificate in Addiction and Mental Health from Durham College (Oshawa), and a post-graduate certificate in Gestalt Therapy from the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. She is a member in good standing of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP), the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT), and the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), an international community. She can be reached at changehappens.ca.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Everybody's Got a Story


• In My Life

CHAPTER 1: APPOINTMENT WITH GILDA

• Has Anyone Got a Chair?


• The Greatest Role of My Life


• I Am Not the Walrus, or Am I?

CHAPTER 2: THE GIBBLE-GABBLE

• Dealing with Crazy


• The Unrelenting Tenth Degree

CHAPTER 3: ALL IN THE FAMILY

• Shirley


• Robert/Bob


• Shirley and Bob


• Rosemarie


• Me


• My Sister


• The Shadow

CHAPTER 4: OPENING NIGHT

• Noelle


• Brown Camps

CHAPTER 5: CONNECTS AND DISCONNECTS

• The Source


• The System


• The Great Pretender


• Mealtime at Our House


• Gabby Girdle Gold


• Splits

CHAPTER 6: EARLY IN THE NINTH

• A Teensy Bit about the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry


• The Original April Fool


• Jagged Little Pills


• Food, Glorious Food


• Gilda's First Take

CHAPTER 7: O-BLAH-DEE-O-BLAH-DAH

• Location, Location, Location


• May I Help You Out?


• Ms. Personality


• Dotter

CHAPTER 8: MEASURING THE MARIGOLDS

• Family Therapy


• Drugged Tests, Part 1


• Alarming


• Drugged Tests, Part 2


• Bob and Shirley at the Clarke, Take 1

CHAPTER 9: THE UNWINDING

• Who Are You?


• Not a Rape


• Basement Daze

CHAPTER 10: CHEZ CLARKE

• On the Move


• Guitar


• Other Peeps


• Remnants


• Sex Ed


• Bob and Shirley at the Clarke, Take 2

CHAPTER 11: PLAN B

• Cold Fish and Chocolate


• Nellie and the Stain


• Insincerity Times Two


• Don't Ask, Never Tell

CHAPTER 12: REALITY ORIENTATION

• Don't Wear Red


• Shift that Paradigm


• Potential


• Whose Reality?


• External Validity


• Mudville


• Future Tense


• A Mind of My Own

CHAPTER 13: LEAVINGS

• Falling Through


• You Can Go Home Again, but …


• Toronto-Bound

CHAPTER 14: OUTPATIENT

• Out of the Frying Pan


• Into the Fire


• Farewell Gilda, Hello Jack

CHAPTER 15: UP TO THE BOTTOM

• Yorkville Revisited


• Sitcom Anyone?


• London Revisited


• Fat Acceptance


• The Parking Lot


• Does It Look like a Duck?

CHAPTER 16: A NEW DIRECTION

• The Turning Point


• Goal Weight at Last


• The Myth of Thin


• Fathead


• Food First


• The Power to Choose


• Relapse


• Archeology


• Here's the Thing

APPENDIX: UNDERLYING TRIGGER ISSUES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENDNOTES

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Schlagworte: Binge Eating • Compulsive Eating • emotional eating • Food Addiction • Obesity • Overeating • Twelve-step program
• ISBN-10: 1-9994656-2-8 / 1999465628
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9994656-2-9 / 9781999465629