With the abundance of tasty food available, it is easy to overeat, a fact complicated by our cultural fixation on thinness. The pressure to be thin, combined with other factors, leads to such eating disorders as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa....
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison explains that, "...society has a vested interest in keeping people from killing themselves." Dr. Jamison adds that it's important to "...make it easier for people to talk about depression, abou...