Tools for Intentional Living – Dr. J. Nickens

A new medical and behavioral condition has been identified by The Eating Disorder Center of Denver.  They call it

DRUNKOREXIA          Seriously.

Drunkorexia, is mostly experienced by  young women and is characterized by their uncontrollable habit of starving themselves all day to save the calories that they will then take in through the alcohol they drink later.  Food is typically shunned all day and drinking starts in the afternoon and continues into the night.   If these young women do eat (usually only nominal amounts), then they also will purge either through intentional vomiting or more often through the involuntary vomiting associated with severe intoxication.   They continuously lose weight while they habitually drink until intoxicated.

Many of these women are also suffering from the influence and emotional intimidation both of general society as well as their husbands or partners.  They tragically try to conform to the distorted “photoshopped” images of waif-like girls that dominate female images in our social media, often because a male partner taunts them with jibes about being overweight.

And while men report drinking similar amounts of alcohol to women, the frequency of “binge” drinking is higher among women.  The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders reports that 72% of women who are addicted to alcohol also have an eating disorder!

If you can take a clear look at your life, and at your drinking behavior, and if you can see that you too are continuously starving yourself — losing weight to “look good” for someone – while you drink your life away in loneliness and despair, then it’s time for you to make an appointment with a qualified therapist.  Begin today to re-claim both your natural beauty and your independence from alcohol.  

Re-claim your life.                                                                      

For more information on this critical issue, and on the Eating Disorders Center of Denver, visit this link:  http://tiny.cc/EgMMR.