Re: Re: Body Dismorphic Disorder-- advice please

[Guest guest]

Tofu is said to affect the female hormones. Maybe that, combined with the poor

diet, is causing the problem. I know diet can have a huge effect on mental

health.

Carol

[Guest guest]

>Too much manganese from all the tofu she adds to everything?

As a vegetarian, she's probably eating purified gluten fake meats

too. Someone sent me this link (thanks!):

http://www.mercola.com/forms/seminars/2004/dec/wheat_brain.htm

He says: " Up to 90% of my patients who complain of these kinds of neurological

and behavioral problems also have documented elevated antibodies to wheat,

indicative of wheat sensitivities. The connection is undeniable. When these

people stop eating wheat, their symptoms invariably diminish. " In his talk, Dr.

O', who will be joined by nutritionist Stimmer, will tell attendees

how to recognize whether their symptoms are wheat-connected, and how to omit

wheat from their diets -- even though so many foods have wheat as their primary

ingredient. Ms. Stimmer will also share practical tips on how to shop for and

select a variety of wheat-free foods.

Wheat gluten is being used for protein in many vegetarian diets, and

to me, that is a very dangerous thing!

Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 11/29/04 11:52:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,

heidis@... writes:

> Wheat gluten is being used for protein in many vegetarian diets, and

> to me, that is a very dangerous thing!

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~~~> Anyone who eats Seitan has serious gustatory dysfunctions in addition to

whatever misperceptions of themselves from which they might suffer!

Chris

[Guest guest]

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I'm terribly late in replying, but I will answer your questions-- to the best

of my ability. I don't see her very often. Saw her for the first time today

since a brief incidental meeting a year ago, before which I hadn't seen her

for a couple years.

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In a message dated 11/29/04 11:13:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,

toyotaokiec@... writes:

> Do you ever see her get angry?

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~~~> *I* don't see her get angry, but she says that her and her boyfriend

fight all of the time.

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> Is it hard for her to make decisions? Or does she ever talk about

> having a hard time thinking straight?

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~~~> Well, she just broke up with her boyfriend for about a month and got

back together. She went to bartending school and never became a bartender. She

went to cake-decorating school and never got a job decorating cakes. But

she's young, and I'm not doing anything with the things I've gone to school for,

so I'm not sure how much that's just normal experimentation. I guess I don't

have much basis for judgment.

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> Does she ever complain of being cold? I would expect all that tofu to

> make her hypothyroid.

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~~> I'll have to ask her. We had coffee today together and she wore a winter

coat buttoned up when we were inside for over an hour. I'm not sure whether

that was because she was cold or because she thinks she's fat. (she's not.)

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> She's really into punishing and depriving herself, isn't she? She

> really doesn't sound as if she has any connection to things that are

> essentially nurturing.

> Does she watch a lot of TV? Or spend a lot of time on the Internet?

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~~~> I don't think she watches much tv, and while she spends a lot of time on

the internet I bet it's less than I do!

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> Do you have any idea what her parents are/were like? It sounds like

> she thinks she doesn't deserve to receive the kinder and gentler

> things of life.

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~~~> I'm not sure how they treated her but they're divorced and she said it

was an awful marriage. That came up because I mentioned my mom took some black

and red sand from her Hawaiian honey moon and she said that was bad luck-- I

said no wonder the marriage was so awful. She blame's her parents' awful

marriage on their reception in a park with an excessive amount of goose feces

:-)

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> Do you think her teeth are bad? How would Dr. Price describe them?

>

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~~~> They looked good to me but I didn't examine them.

Chris