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Author: kfwilliams

  • Facts and Myths regarding Eating Disorders

    Facts and Myths regarding Eating Disorders

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    There’s a common misconception that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice due in part to our culture’s current obsession with food and weight. The country’s increase in the obesity rate and Western culture preference for thinness has led to disordered eating in many individuals, but there’s a major difference between ‘fad dieting’ and eating disorders.…

  • Types of Self-Care

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    Many people view self-care as a luxury, rather than a priority. However, self-care is more than just a face mask and a bubble bath. It’s about improving the mental state of mind through relaxation and “me time” to restore balance from the fun and stressful moments of life in a healthy, productive way. Self-care: Actions…

  • Philadelphia Asylum: The Real American Horror Story

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    “In Philadelphia, the sovereign Commonwealth of Pennsylvania maintains a dilapidated, overcrowded, undermanned mental ‘hospital’ known as Byberry. There, on the stone wall of a basement ward appropriately known as the ‘Dungeon,’ one can still read, after nine years, the five-word legend: George was kill here 1937.”  – Life Magazine, 1946   In 1903, the Commonwealth…