NEDA Awareness Week 2015 is Here! The St. Louis Planetarium was lit up for Eating Disorder Awareness Week! #NEDAwareness McCallum Place Eating Disorder Centers will be observing the National Eating Disorder Association’s Awareness Week February 22-February 28, 2015. NEDA’s week-long event encourages and promotes eating disorder education, events and outreach in local communities to help … Read More
Written by Stephanie Bagby-Stone, MD When it comes to struggling with an eating disorder, college is a high risk time. The median age of onset for most eating disorders occurs during these years.2 Studies on college campuses report that nearly 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have disordered eating or unhealthy weight … Read More
Written by Michelle Skala, MA, LPC, NCC Dealing with anxiety can be incredibly exhausting; racing thoughts, tightness in your chest, tense muscles. What is someone expected to do when everything feels so overwhelming? Thankfully, there are quite a few options. Dealing with anxiety may be difficult in the moment, however, sitting with those uncomfortable feelings … Read More
Written by Randall Flanery, PhD, Director of Webster Wellness Professionals A trim young man sits in my office, brought to see me by his parents who aren’t sure if they should be concerned. He has noticeable muscle definition by virtue of a rigorous work-out regimen, and consumes a high protein, low fat diet of about … Read More
Written by Ron A. Thompson, PhD, FAED, CEDS When talking with athletes and coaches about eating disorders, the question I am often asked is how eating disorders affect sport performance. This is an important question because some athletes tell me that their performance actually improved when they began disordered eating behaviors (i.e., restricted eating, weight … Read More
Written by Elizabeth Bloomfield-Deal, MA, PLPC The effect of eating disorders on partners and loved ones has not received much attention in the form of empirical research. However, the sheer nature of an eating disorder can be extremely difficult to understand and accept. Watching someone you love deprive themselves of food and care or cause … Read More
Written by Ron A. Thompson, PhD, FAED, CEDS One shortcoming of research in the area of athletes and eating disorders involves the lack of information related to the decisions regarding when an athlete with an eating disorder should be withheld from training and competition and when it is safe for the athlete to return to … Read More
Written by Riley Nickols, PhD Sport Psychological Resident, Therapist The Fall season is upon us. As such, students and teachers are in the middle of the school semester and athletes are in the midst of their respective Fall sport. A change in seasons could be a helpful reminder to be aware of changes in exercise … Read More
Written by Randall Flanery, PhD, Director of Webster Wellness Professionals While the majority of those with bulimia, as with any eating disorder, are women, men do indeed struggle with binge eating and its associated features. Historically, the ratio of women to men with eating disorders like bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa has been calculated at … Read More
Written by Kimberli McCallum, MD, FAPA, CEDS, CEO and Executive Medical Director of McCallum Place Eating Disorder Centers I have been working with patients and their families struggling to overcome eating disorders for 25 years. My first patient as a resident at UCLA was a brilliant young woman struggling with restrictive eating, compulsive exercise and … Read More
Read about how our patients continue to show improvement after discharging from our facility.
