One of the largest eating disorder treatment centers in Britain has asked social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to close down pro-anorexia Web sites. In response, the sites made the brilliant excuse that it’s difficult to distinguish between support groups and pro-eating-disorder groups. Aha.
For the answer, let’s turn to my former my newsroom-mate David […]
Entries Tagged as 'mental disorders'
Eating disorder treatment center asks MySpace to purge harmful sites
February 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: mainstream media · mental disorders
To have and to hoard: packrats get a clinical name
January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There was a nice little article on the psychology of clutter in the Denver Post yesterday. By getting into the mental-disorder element of hanging on to stuff (and thus creating clutter), the article touched on but didn’t name the concept of hoarding. According to a WebMD article, compulsive hoarders can’t make decisions about items’ worth and […]
Tags: mental disorders
Britney’s had her Phil: Spears claim doc’s advice amounts to “practicing without a license”
January 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Alright, I could only put off talking about cra’y-cra’y Brit-Brit and Dr. Phil for so long. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about this celebrity showdown, but just to bring you up to speed: After Britney was restrained and rushed to a hospital, her fam called on Dr. Phil and asked […]
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