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This article was updated on 28 October 2021, after being first published on 22 December 2013. Bulimia is a common yet highly distressing disorder impacting up to 2.9% of women in Australia. It involves phases of eating huge quantities of food in an uncontrollable manner followed by behaviours to avoid weight gain including vomiting, using laxatives, diuretics or other diet pills, or excessive exercises. These behaviours must continue once per week for three months to qualify for a DSM diagnosis of bulimia. While [...]

With the pandemic lingering around for longer than we thought, we’ve all tried our best to adapt to the new normal. We now work from the same beds that we sleep on, order meals at home, and meet our friends on video calls. But whilst we’ve managed to maintain communication with others, many of us have unknowingly hit the mute button on our romantic relationships. Let’s rewind to when Covid first hit. Back then, many of us thought that working from home presented us with the perfect opportunity to spend valuable time with our partner[...]

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Shame is an extremely common experience for individuals who have or have had difficulties with substance use and addiction. In some cases, the shame comes before the substance use, and in some cases, it happens after the substance use. Shame is an experience of the self as flawed, inadequate, deficient, incompetent and worthless. When we feel shame, our action, urge or impulse is to hide these flaws or inadequacies from others to maintain a sense of being positively regarded and valued. The fear is that if others were to see our imperfection[...]

Life across the world has been transformed in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many countries, COVID-19 has had devastating consequences to the health and wellbeing of individuals across the lifespan. It has also resulted in drastic changes to the world economy as many people have been forced into working online or in other cases have sadly lost their job and entered a time of terrible hardship. [...]

Life in the time of COVID-19 is akin to something most of us have never encountered before. On hold for now are day trips, overseas holidays, long afternoon lunches in the sun with groups of friends and family and for many people their previous work role has either disappeared or changed in a significant way. The speed of these changes has left many people feeling overwhelmed, anxious, sad and angry. Others have responded by downplaying or minimising the severity that the COVID 19 virus poses to vulnerable groups, front-line health workers and [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed life as we know it across many regions of the world in just a few short months. I could not have fathomed how quickly my life and that of everyone impacted by COVID-19 could be upended. We are all adjusting to new terminology such as “social distancing”, “essential and non-essential services”, “self isolation” and “flattening the curve”. While these are vital public health measures required to curb the rate of COVID-19 spread, the social and economic consequences are enormous. One of t[...]