Every day I think about the fact that everyone in my generation watched Heavyweights but in every comment section I find people who saw Tony Perkis and said “yeah. That’s the hero. That’s the blueprint.”
Today, @EDCoalition President, @CMP_UNC met w/ @AmerAcadPeds President Dr. Sandy Chung.
The @edcoaltion seeks to have today’s conversation be one of many with the @AmerAcadPeds over the coming months and years. Read our full statement: https://t.co/B9ZzYR4Ffx.
5 yr old Shira already knew that eating was shameful and bad and that her body was wrong. 5 yr old Shira knew that in order to be accepted and loved, she needed to lose weight. But because food was forbidden, Shira started sneaking food as early as 7. By 10, she was purging.
@theshirarose@JJisheretostay I literally bought myself the D&D players handbook for the explicit purpose of filling the chaotic good cleric shaped hole in my heart
'Emotional regulation' is both a useful concept, the marketisation of something we all do instinctively, and a reinforcement of rather confining, outdated, shit, white middle-class, cishet, ableist norms like nearly everything else in mental health.
@jack_turban I particularly worry about how manualized treatment (aka an easily implemented and quantified approach) privileges the lens of dominant narratives and biases especially when we treat marginalized folks
Three references are given in this section:
1️⃣ is a commentary article where the three lead authors are all either consultants or employees of Weight Watchers or Novo Nordisk.
WHITESTONE, NY! Ginger's foster says he is very sad being without a cat buddy and misses an old friend he once had. Please help another sad-faced friend! https://t.co/BtNoWTfmhV
Did you know that the way a woman looks will impact whether her rapist or abuser is found guilty in a courtroom?
This was one of the most depressing findings of my PhD years ago.
Here’s what I learned:
🧵 time