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Annetta Ramsay, Ph.D., is a licensed and nationally certified counselor. She is an Op-Ed Thought Voices Fellow at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
The Supreme Court just might hear an appeal to Texas’s TRAP law, making it the biggest abortion case in 25 years. This showdown has been building for decades here, as anti-abortion extremism keeps pushing the legal envelope.
Families seem to be spotting eating disorders sooner than years ago. A danger point is puberty, when young women start being very concerned about their bodies. If they develop body dysmorphic disorder it can be a precursor. Be ready to face some anger.
My patients usually cite their thighs as a source of their body-image struggles, even when they are dangerously underweight. Listening to their extreme hatred for their thighs can be painful.
Eating disorders are grounded in shame and shame is the glue that makes them stick. Shame doesn’t work. We should focus on health, not obesity or weight loss. So let’s join the push against school BMI screenings and look for other ways to fight childhood obesity.
It’s 1924 now and all women are on the brink of gaining the right to vote. Watch how the female characters work to subvert a class system and its patriarchal foundations. It’s a great soap opera, bubbling with history. And afterward, thankfully, we can turn it all off.