Woo Hoo I have another Mental Illness - Eating Well?

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So the machine is working overtime now.

“Orthorexia Nervosa”

This one takes the cake.  If I have ever heard anything as crazy before, this just beats it all.  I see this like a net to capture up the few remaining strong people who have not already been broken down and machined by the machine.  

I am preoccupied with eating very little.  I know in my spirit there is going to be a food crisis.   I don't want to be involved in this.  I work hard to see how far I can push myself and not lose health doing it.  This would be seen as extremely unconventional thinking and be seen as crazy.  But, I have always listened to my instincts and these are working over time during the crisis of life the world is facing. 

Sun-gazing did help.  I noticed almost straight away I didn't need to eat as much.  The sun was feeding me with an alternative form of energy.  Science has not as yet progressed enough to understand this principal.  I didn't cease eating.  I just listened to my body and was not governed by a clock which said it was breakfast or Dinner.  I simply ate when I was hungry.  Is that crazy?

It was the most amazing year of insight too.  I painted things - I wove things - and I heard things and saw things very differently.  This was the time I saw the ground move.  It was like I could see into the earth and all the tiniest little life forms were saying "hello", thank you for remembering we are here.

So if a desire for eating nutritious food is crazy, imagine what is thought of that sort of behaviour?

“Orthorexia Nervosa”

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CNN, Fast Company, Popular Science, and other top outlets have all began to trumpet the talking points on cue relatively recently:

"Orthorexia nervosa is a label designated to those who are concerned about eating healthy. Characterized by disordered eating fueled by a desire for “clean” or “healthy” foods, those diagnosed with the condition are overly preoccupied with the nutritional makeup of what they eat".

Having your food will be seen as crazy if the Machine has its way!

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Oxytocin is such a magical substance we produce.

New treatment for social problems in autism? Oxytocin improves emotion recognition

Oxytocin is a hormone that has effects on brain function. Although it is best known for its role in facilitating labor, delivery, and breast-feeding, it is also important in promoting trust, love, and social recognition.

oxytocin-neurophysin complex based on: "Crystal structure of the neurophysin-oxytocin complex" Rose, J.P., Wu, C.K., Hsiao, C.D., Breslow, E., Wang, B.C. (1996) Nat.Struct.Biol. 3: 163-169 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In a new study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, Australian autism experts recruited adolescents with ASDs. Using a rigorous study design, they administered a single dose each of oxytocin and placebo via a nasal spray, received one week apart. Both times, the subjects were asked to complete a facial expression task that measures emotion recognition.
Compared to administration of the placebo spray, the subjects' performance on the task was improved when they received the oxytocin spray.

English: A dramatic photo shot of nasal spray in action. A hand sprays a mist of nasal spray droplets on a black background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

These findings provide the first evidence that "a brief and simple intervention can improve emotion understanding in autism, or in fact any clinical disorder associated with social dysfunction. It is also the first to show the benefits of oxytocin nasal spray in young people, suggesting potential for earlier intervention where there may be greater opportunity to improve development," explained author Dr. Adam Guastella. "This study, therefore, makes an important advance with the longer-term hope that oxytocin could be used to improve social function in everyday settings for clinical disorders associated with social dysfunction."
Since this was a relatively small study, additional research is still needed to confirm these promising findings and further evaluate oxytocin as a potential treatment. Until then, the authors advise against the use of oxytocin outside of supervised clinical trial research.