Tag Archives: social use

when it’s really, really a problem

March 6, 2010 – 7:39 pm

When last we spoke we were focusing on what I decided to call “normal excess.” It can be really hard, especially from inside the problem, to really differentiate what is “normal” versus what is a problem behavior. There comes a time, however, that the problem behavior is clear and when you look at it honestly, [...]

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normal excess versus food abuse

January 23, 2010 – 2:41 pm

This has been a difficult topic. There seems to be a clear, yet ill defined gray area between what is normal and what is abuse. You could, back to our alcohol example, characterize any over-use of alcohol as abusive drinking and some people would do so. I see a subsection of over-use as essentially normal [...]

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so what is normal?

December 10, 2009 – 5:12 pm

I’ve had this fantasy for years of being, or becoming, a normal eater. What does that mean? It always seems to me that “normal” people don’t obsess about everything they eat or don’t eat. They don’t have lists of things they aren’t allowed to buy because they’re afraid if they have that bag of chips [...]

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