Someday…I’ll eat breakfast.I’ll keep a job for more than 3 weeks.I’ll have a boyfriend for more than 10 days.I’ll love someone.I’ll travel wherever I want.I’ll make my family proud.I’ll make a movie that will change lives.On May 26th, 2009, Melissa lost her life to a five year battle with an eating disorder. At the young […]
Category Archives: Eating Disorders
Eating Disorder Patients Fight Twice the Battle: Their Illness & Their Insurance Carrier
The BattleA national struggle persists, and threatens the lives of roughly 11 million Americans. Eating disorders, the deadliest of all mental health illnesses, torment millions of people, and only one in ten get the treatment essential for recovery (Making Peace with Women’s Bodies).The Emily Program (one of the largest eating disorder treatment facilities in the […]
The Elisa Project 12th Annual Professional Symposium: An Ethics Hour Presentation
Don’t miss Lisa Kantor’s lunch hour ethics presentation for The 12th Annual Professional Symposium for the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders. You can hear Lisa speak on “Working with Insurance Companies to Obtain Coverage for Appropriate Treatment for Eating Disorder Clients”, at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, on Friday February 17 th […]
Mental Health Parity: What Does It Really Mean?
One of the most significant barriers for those suffering from eating disorders (and other mental health illnesses) is obtaining insurance coverage for residential treatment. In the US, as many as 10 million females and 1 million males are suffering from eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and tragically, anorexia has the highest mortality rate […]
Lisa Kantor Joins The Eating Disorders Coalition
“On behalf of the EDC, I want to warmly welcome Lisa Kantor to our board. We have followed her impressive legal work on behalf of those suffering from eating disorders and are thrilled to have her on our team.” -Lisa Rachelle Lilenfeld , Ph.D. Board PresidentTwo great forces are coming together with admirable determination, lofty […]
Eating Disorder Treatment & The Significance of Educating Insurance Companies
It’s quite a contradiction that those responsible for paying for treatment of eating disorders are the least knowledgeable about the illness. Eating disorders are incredibly complicated and complex illnesses, which may require intense therapy in residential treatment facilities for as little as a month, or as long as several years. Eleven million Americans suffer from […]
Experts Find That Eating Disorders Resurface In Adults
Although eating disorders are generally thought of as a teen struggle, an increasing number of middle-aged women are seeking out treatment for disordered eating that began in their youth. These women have either had an eating disorder when they were younger, or experienced some sort of disordered eating, and were never fully treated.When unhealthy eating […]
New Study Finds That Intervention For Midlife Eating Disorders Works
Psychological health researcher Sian McLean published a study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology speaking of the significance of intervention, regardless of age. Mclean’s study included 61 women, ages thirty through sixty, who received 8 group sessions of CBT.This study proved to be effective, with the long term effects of intervention showing improvements […]
The Recorder Names Lisa Kantor Among Its 2011 Attorneys Of The Year
Lisa Kantor was selected as an Attorney of the Year, in San Francisco legal newspaper The Recorder’s third annual list, recognizing the significant accomplishments of California attorneys who made headlines in 2011 for notable achievements in court or on a major deal. Ms. Kantor was honored for her win in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court […]
Speaking Out About Eating Disorders
Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. One in two hundred women in the United States suffer from this disease. Eating disorders are more common in the U.S. than Alzheimer’s disease (10 million people have eating disorders compared to 4 million with Alzheimer’s disease).http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/If eating disorders are so prevalent, why aren’t people […]
