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Binge Crazy : A Psychotherapist's Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery - Natalie Gold

Binge Crazy

A Psychotherapist's Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery

By: Natalie Gold

Paperback | 29 November 2018

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In Binge Crazy, therapist Natalie Gold reveals her lived experience to show how binge eating disorder and food addiction develops, how it impacts the individual and their loved ones, and the complex road to recovery. From a Toronto mental hospital to a talk show in London, England, she chronicles over 50 years of failure and success. Binge Crazy is really about relationships, especially the author’s love-hate affair with food and eating. “There was never enough, could never be enough food to satisfy what was wrong inside,” says Gold. The author exposes aspects of her life that also reflect those of her clients and others who struggle.

Binge Crazy is not the standard “how to” book – but it is an example of what not to do. It is a daringly honest portrayal of what it’s like to be inside the head and heart of someone who suffers from out-of-control eating, and the zigzag recovery process. Binge Crazy formed the basis for Gold’s chapter on severe food addiction for the textbook, Processed Food Addiction, Foundations, Assessment and Recovery (Taylor & Francis), since she met all eleven substance use criteria in the definitive mental health reference, the  DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fifth Edition,(APA, 2013).

Now a Registered Psychotherapist, Gold is an honors graduate of Ryerson University (Toronto), holds a graduate certificate in Addiction and Mental Health from Durham College (Oshawa), and a post-graduate certificate in Gestalt Therapy from the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. She is a member in good standing of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP), the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT), and the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), an international community. She can be reached at changehappens.ca

 

Industry Reviews

A very thoughtful and honest examination of a personal story to understand better how BED evolves and can be helped. The book provides good advice, practical tips and hope to people who experience pain and suffering.  
-- Dr. Paul Garfinkel, former CEO CAMH, Professor of Psychiatry, Staff Psychiatrist Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto

Beautifully written … Funny, heartwarming, bittersweet, instructive, hopeful, triumphant!
--  A. Barclay, reader

Ms. Gold provides an appendix that illuminates the underlying physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and socio-cultural issues which will help readers become more aware of their own personal vulnerabilities.
Mary Anne Cohen, Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders and book reviewer for EdReferral.com

Very moving and insightful with great detail on the inner experience and struggles … candid and courageous.
-- Annette Bradshaw, MA, RP

As a Psychotherapist, I feel this is a very important book … a rare gem … it combines personal and clinical insight into numerous prominent themes that bring clients into therapy … in a relatable, often humorous way … how sad I felt when it was finished …  searingly honest … a fascinating and intriguing story.
-- Sinead Kavanaugh

Very well-written and compelling … shows the particular devastation of judgement and profound misunderstanding of the nature of the disease as a mental illness. It also shows how inept treatment can make the disease worse. It could be a manual for what not to do as the parent of a food addict.
-- Dr. Joan Ifland, Food Addiction Education

This book would be particularly helpful for individuals suffering from childhood trauma and family dysfunction … Natalie offers multiple examples -- physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual -- on how she came to work through her food addiction and binge eating.
Shelly Higdon, reader

Highly recommended for any who struggle with obesity or addiction … Its blend of autobiography and insights wraps all this in a cloak of personal experience that invites both binge eaters and their loved ones to read, relate, and understand the confusion surrounding losing weight, self-image, and family interactions.
-- D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review

Binge Crazy leads the reader from misunderstanding to understanding, from feelings of being ‘crazy’ to health and well-being, and from despair to hope.
Keris Jän Myrick, MBA,MS, Mental Health Advocate, former CEO of Project Return Peer Support Network

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