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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Eating Disorders: Overlapping Presentations, Differing Treatments.

There can be confusion when differentiating between body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and eating disorders (EDs). They both involve pre-occupying appearance-related thoughts and repetitive behaviours, but are treated differently.

When Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) take over

07.19.2023

When Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) Take Over

According to the DSM 5, Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) are classified as obsessive–compulsive related disorders. But the question remains, how do we treat BFRBs?

What’s New in the ADAA Publishing World?

06.30.2023

New ADAA Member Books! Summer 2023

Check out our ADAA members' new books that offer help for the public and support for professionals.

06.30.2023

Mindfulness for Sickness and Pain

Sensations of pain and illness in our bodies naturally grab our attention. This attention to pain and illness also naturally evokes emotional responses.

Social Skills Training (SST).. Spiegel and Ali ADAA 2023

05.22.2023

Social Skills Training (SST): A Tool for Social Anxiety Disorder: In Conversation with 2023 ADAA Annual Conference Presenters

Therapy can vary from patient to patient, clinician to clinician, but two ADAA members who presented at the 2023 Annual Conference believe therapy for SAD and other related disorders can benefit from an additional tool. Their conference session, Me Talk Funny One Day: Teaching Social Skills for Social Anxiety and Other Disorders, not only confirmed that belief but explained it.

Eda Gorbis Hormones, Mental Health and the Mind/Body Connection

05.02.2023

Hormones, Mental Health and the Mind/Body Connection

The idea that mental illness and psychiatric disorders are afflictions that only affect the brain is now regarded as incorrect. We know that the brain controls the body and when the brain doesn’t function properly, the body suffers the consequences, and vice-versa. A Roman poet by the name of Juvenal understood this connection when he wrote “a healthy mind in a healthy body”, echoing the fact that the body and brain are intertwined, and the health or ill-health of one can affect the other.