Emotional Eating Center - White Plains, NY
White Plains Psychiatrist Doctors for Emotional EatingType of Physician: Psychiatrist What is a Psychiatrist? A certification by the Board of Psychiatry & Neurology; practitioners are skilled in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental, addictive and emotional disorders. He or she is trained to understand the biological, psychological and social components of illness and is qualified to order diagnostic laboratory tests and to prescribe medications, as well as to evaluate and treat psychological and interpersonal problems. The psychiatrist is also prepared to intervene with individuals and families who are coping with stress, crises, and other problems in living. Specialty: Psychiatry Common Name: Psychiatrist Doctors in White Plains * Birgit Elias MD  Family Health Associates  The Sleep Disorders Center  Fredric Neuman MD PC  Sunil Saxena MD  Richard Gabel MD  Lynne F Hoffman MD  White Plains Mental Health  Steven I Tutnauer MD  Philip Zuckerman MD  Gerard C Addonizio MD  Cornell University Geropsychiatry Westchester  William J Apfeldorf MD  Arnold D Cohen MD  John P Docherty MD  Gladys Frankel PhD  Lawrence Grolnick MD  New York Presbyterian Hospital General Psychiatry  Daniel Hertz MD  Cornell University Geropsychiatry Westchester  Otto F Kernberg MD  Sibel Klimstra MD  Ira Lazar MD  Ruth Lubelski MD  Cornell University Geropsychiatry Westchester  Kathryn Moss MD  New York Presbyterian Hospital General Psychiatry  John B Stadler MD  Virginia L Susman MD  Agame Takahashi MD  Cornell University Geropsychiatry Westchester  Maurizio Zambenedetti MD  David Aftergood MD  Anthony Bardinelli MD  David Pelino MD  Medical Psychiatric Practice PC  T Sacken MD  William Rosenthal MD  Saul E Kapel MD  Sheldon Eisenman MD  Laurence Loeb MD  Herman W Spater MD  Warren S Seides MD  J W Silverberg MD  Prime Care Group  Norman Weiss MD  Marion G Hart MD  Lori Adel MD  Howard D Kibel MD  Anri A Kissilenko MD  Leonard I Leven MD  Mary K Kentros MD  Bradford Perry MD  Mark Singer MD  Alexander Broden MD  Arthur V Badikian MD  Advanced Bio-Behavioral Sciences Inc  Jerome H Liebowitz MD  Ernest J Pelaccio MD  Harvey Barten MD  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Family Study Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Westchester Medical Center  Jules R Bemporad MD  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents OARS  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  Jeffrey P Kahn MD  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  Richard Milone MD  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  Arthur Sinkman MD  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  St Vincents Hospital Westchester  Harvey Stabinsky MD White Plains, New YorkUpcoming Local Events2012-05-29
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Emotional EatingRead the Emotional Eating article » How Can I Identify Eating Triggers?Situations and emotions that trigger us to eat fall into five main categories.
To identify what triggers excessive eating in you, keep a food diary that records what and when you eat as well as what stressors, thoughts, or emotions you identify as you eat. You should begin to identify patterns to your excessive eating fairly quickly. How Do I Break Myself of the Habit?Identifying eating triggers is the first step; however, this alone is not sufficient to alter eating behavior. Usually, by the time you have identified a pattern, eating in response to emotions or certain situations has become a habit. Now you have to break that habit. Developing alternatives to eating is the second step. When you start to reach for food in response to a trigger, try one of the following activities instead.
Recommended Reading Related to Emotional EatingHow does depression in the elderly differ from depression in younger adults?Depression in later life frequently coexists with other medical illnesses and disabilities. In addition, advancing age is often accompanied by loss of social support systems due to the death of a spouse or siblings, retirement, or relocation of residence. Because of changes in an elderly person's circumstances and the fact that elderly people are expected to slow down, doctors and family may miss the signs of depression. As a result, effective treatment gets delayed. Many seniors find themselves trying to cope with symptoms that could have been easily treated. Depression tends to last longer in elderly adults. It doubles their risk of cardiac diseases and increases their risk of death from illness. At the same time, depression reduces an elderly person's ability to rehabilitate. Studies of nursing home patients with physical illnesses have shown that the pres... Other Related Emotional Eating ArticlesEmergency Contact for White Plains
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