Archive for March, 2008
Eating Disorder Treatment
Your eating disorder isn’t your fault. It isn’t an indication of personal weakness, or proof of moral failing. On the contrary, an eating disorder is a disease, and like all diseases it exists outside the scope of individual will. The obvious corollary, of course, is that you can’t get better without eating disorder treatment. As no one ever decides to suffer from anorexia or bulimia, so can no one every simply decide to overcome them. There is no road to recovery that does not involve intensive eating disorder treatment.
The good news is that the right eating disorder treatment program can make a world of difference. The only catch is that you have to seek it out. Eating disorder treatment facilities can’t help patients who refuse to walk through the front door. For your own sake, let today be the day you make the right choice. Eating disorder treatment will change your life. It’s hard to imagine how anyone could ever need any more convincing than that.
Posted in Dual Diagnosis and Eating Disorder Resources | No commentsThe amount of people affected by alcoholism is staggering
The number of people that need alcohol rehabilitation at an alcohol rehab is staggering. Nobody escapes paying the price for alcoholism, drug addiction, and codependency in society. Even if you are fortunate enough not to be a drinker at a level that is diseased (about 10% of our population drinks enough to hamper their daily performance) or one of the four adults who are in line daily enabling one who is (i.e., 48% of all adults over the age of 18 were either directly impacted by a diseased drinker as they grew up, or are being effected at the moment), then you are paying for the disease through higher taxes and insurance rates.
But let’s focus here on the costs to the trust and integrity within a society. Psychologists can actually measure trust within a society. Dr. Daniel Goleman, in his great books on emotional intelligence tells us that the technical term for the overall trust level in a society is its social capital. Social capital is the sum of the goodwill and trust among the members of a society. Social capital takes in ethical values, charitable contributions, volunteerism, and such intangibles as looking out for the welfare of your neighbors, or caring for a sick friend. Interestingly enough, the three countries that have been the most successful economically on the earth (The U.S.A., Germany, and Japan) also have the highest levels of social capital.
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