Ops & Blogs  >  Judy Krasna

January 14, 2014
10:34 am

Do no harm: Who should not be treating anorexia

If you are a therapist, dietitian, or psychiatrist without solid training or experience in the field of eating disorders, I don’t want you treating my daughter. I don’t care......

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December 9, 2013
1:20 pm

Scared to touch my babies

When my triplet daughters were born ten weeks prematurely, I was afraid to touch them. It sounds awful, I know, but their miniature twig-like limbs seemed so delicate that......

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November 19, 2013
10:25 am

When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy

The number one question that other mothers ask me is “how do I know if my daughter has an eating disorder”?  More often than not, the mothers go on......

   

October 28, 2013
9:20 am

Hanging on for dear life

I am deathly afraid of heights and yet I keep finding myself standing on the ledge of an impossibly tall building hanging on for dear life, trying not to......

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August 26, 2013
9:27 am

Friends Like Mine

I never used to give much thought to my friends beyond that they fell in different categories, such as the stage in my life when our lives intersected, degree......

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July 30, 2013
10:27 am

Not in front of the kids

Conversations that focus on weight are forbidden in my house. If a guest starts talking about a new diet or about how he/she needs to lose weight, we will......

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July 8, 2013
9:22 am

My Anti-Anorexia Activism

It seems that I have become an activist of sorts. I’m a little out of my element; activism seems like such an enormous concept and I’m just one mother......

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June 10, 2013
9:12 am

Fighting My Daughter’s Anorexia

As a general rule, I like being prepared. I like knowing what to expect. I will look at a map before I drive anywhere new to see where I......

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May 21, 2013
11:30 am

The Search For Anorexia Treatment

When I am looking for a plumber or an orthodontist, I post on my community list asking for recommendations as well as any cautionary warnings of who to stay......

   

April 30, 2013
10:29 am

The Anorexic Backlash–Negative Responses to my Blog

My blog posts have elicited a response that I wasn’t prepared for. It seems that some anorexics don’t like my blog too much, and they let me know this in......

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April 8, 2013
10:56 am

Breaking the anorexia stigma

Since I started blogging about my daughter’s anorexia, men and women alike have approached me to tell me how phenomenal it is that I am bringing anorexia out of......

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March 11, 2013
9:15 am

Lessons Learned From my Daughter’s Hospitalization

Before my daughter was hospitalized for anorexia, I had a different view of hospitalization. I know that it sounds simplistic; but in my head, you went into the hospital......

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February 20, 2013
12:01 pm

A diet that spiraled into anorexia

Pressing the “publish” button on my first blog post was very overwhelming for me. It was taking my experience with my daughter’s anorexia, which is clearly a private......

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February 7, 2013
11:07 am

Anorexia 101

Conventional wisdom dictates that you should write about what you know. Unfortunately, I know a lot about anorexia. My daughter was diagnosed with anorexia over five years ago and......

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