by Melissa Gerson | Jul 28, 2022 | In The News
Does it matter how quickly eating disorder symptoms resolve once you start therapy? Yes, it absolutely does. Columbus Park, an outpatient facility treating disorders throughout New York state, announced their Early Change Model for the treatment of eating disorders...
by Melissa Gerson | May 9, 2022 | Blog
Eating disorders impact people of every ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, gender, and body size, but still, there are many misconceptions about what eating disorders look like. Because of these myths, too many people remain undiagnosed and without treatment. Am I...
by Melissa Gerson | May 2, 2022 | Blog
Does it matter how quickly your eating disorder symptoms decrease once you start treatment? Yes, yes, and yes! An abundance of evidence accumulated over the last 20 years reinforces that early change to treatment is a “robust” predictor of a good outcome.1 In other...
by Melissa Gerson | Apr 26, 2022 | Blog
In last week’s blog post, we discussed how “feeling fat” impacts eating disorder recovery. Now, let’s talk about what it’s like to feel this way during treatment and why you may “feel fat” (the reasons are very real!). Many of...
by Melissa Gerson | Apr 21, 2022 | Blog
While people often refer to fat as if it’s a feeling, it is, of course, not a feeling. Fat is a body type. The expression “I feel fat” is universal and uttered by people of all genders, ages, and body sizes. The phrase is typically a narrative that we use to describe...
