The Family Addiction Tree

Hi,

Going through the book "Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating" by Anne Katherine, is like reliving my childhood. After doing the assignment of recalling my family members and ancestors and what addictions they had, I can see it kind of runs in the family. We have a couple of people who were alcoholics or drug users. We had some who were obese. We had some who were diabetic or had chronic illness. So, while I dont blame them, I dont have to blame me, either.

I also like that the book does not stop with the explanation of how sugar and starches affect my brain chemistry making me, driving me, to over eat. At first glance it seems that the way around the addiction is by giving up the sugar and then life will be grand. So sorry, it does not work exactly that way. That would be the "diet mentality." Dieting does not actually work for a food addict either, because there are other things going on than just food chemistry.

At some point we (addicts) learned to sacrifice our emotional needs for our physical well being. The adults we were around were not very skilled at cuddling us or paying attention to us or teaching us the skills to deal with the emotions of life. They are not to blame. They were not taught these things either. They were doing the best they could.

Nonetheless, in my own family, there were some forms of abuse going on. Striking anyone (a child or teen) with a belt, or punching them in the face is abuse. Not providing the affection they needed or teaching them how to deal with their inner nature is also abuse, of a different kind. Some people in other families suffered even worse. Those children went to certain adults for physical affection and cuddles and got sexually abused. So very sorry for those this happened to. Glad to say that did not happen, as far as I know, in my family. I know it did not happen to me. There were one or two odd instances of sexually inappropriate behavior (we had many kids in our family) but they were not abusive, were not repeated, and were not ever mentioned again. I dont consider those to be too important or life changing, although there may have been an affect of which I am unaware.

All these kinds of things happening to a child shapes how that child deals with life. They learn how to survive but they do not learn how to enjoy being alive. They learn that they are supposed to know things they dont know. They learn to not get too close to the edge of a cliff or they might just fall over and then be berated for being stupid. They become very responsible. They learn that there are times when they might need a cuddle but they have also learned they are not supposed to ask for what they need.

They discover that food can be comforting when they need comfort. Their adults are very busy taking care of what is important to adults... like work or cleaning or whatever they are occupied with. The child learns to keep things hidden from their adults and they may turn to food (or other substances) which actually does give a real and physical kind of comfort, if only for a short time. They learn to trust the process of eating, even after they begin to understand it also does them harm.

The generic descriptions I was reading actually brought back specific memories of my own. Little instances that verified what the author was saying about how the addiction grows. I remember when I was a young adult wishing that I had had the opportunity to go to "charm school" because I had such a rough time with relationships.

This is not a book about wallowing, or blaming, it appears to be simply a way to open my eyes a little so I can begin to learn how to deal with things another way. It is pointing out the need. The promise is that I will learn a much more healthy way to deal with the stresses of life.

I am intrigued and hopeful. Im also a little scared, but, I shall forge ahead. I want to get beyond this over eating thing once and for all. I know I will have to continue to exercise my new skills for the rest of my life, because, from experience, and from the authors writing, I already know my brain acts differently and that may not go away. But hopefully, Ill learn some new skills and go on from there.

Looking ahead,

Be back soon,

Marcia

Health Insurance for family

It isn’t concerning nay other organization or employers group. The health benefits under insurance plans are the specific benefits that are licensed to highly rated insurance carrier agents that searches upon suitable plans for a desired family. There are many varieties and afford abilities for various forms of options for a family in order to have a coverage of a health insurance plan. The health insurance plans are termed as Managed-care plans or Indemnity (life-insurance).

There is a world of difference between indemnity and managed care plans. In indemnity plan one has to firstly pay up a specified amount and then could obtain compensation (reimbursement) from the individual’s or family health insurance company. The medical health insurance is provided to a specific kind so that hundred and thousands of dollars or rupees can be nest egg easily with a pledge that the health plan is conveniently protected for future references.

Health Insurance for family

There are mainly several forms of insurance plans such as: PPO; HMO; POS plans etc. The managed health plans are typically used upon for the use of networked healthcare providing terms and conditions. Within the network the providers agree to perform their duties or services for patients at pre-negotiated rates and thereupon put forward the plan to the insurance companies. The out-of-pocket costs and lessening in paperwork chaos is well assured through it. In order to formulate a difference in understanding the individual’s and family insurance plan there must involve a substantiation of insurability among them.

When an insurance plan is purchased the insurance companies conducts a specific medical examination and a person generally has to answer the health questionnaire for the insurability evidences. If any factor bears on the acceptance of the risks such as medical history; income; age; personal habits the applicant’s coverage will be declined immediately by the insurer. The insurer is expert enough to cover all people of the group in single coverage according to the balancing procedures of those who are having poor health and against those who are in good health without issuing medical examination papers or even evidence of insurability because the danger of an insurer fails to achieve the balance which diminishes as the size of the group increases in number or if the insurer writes about the group policies additionally and increasing the total number of group or individuals covered. This form of group health plan jacket procedure is a called as Law of large numbers. There are certain specific special sponsored Programme covered under federal and state governments which are known to public as Medicare and Medicaid. These are further acknowledged as preferred provider organizations (PPOs).

The health insurance of the family not only is done through health insurance plan criterion but can also be done with the ease of following the credit unions and trade or professional associations. The health insurer have furthermore formalities liable to gain comprehensive information about the type and total numbers of individuals willing to have the health insurance plan for the family where he might demand a maturity age of each family member and the member shouldn’t be a minor to have acquired a health insurance plan. The family health insurance is very flexible by nature and it tends to provide the liberal benefits than what can be assured through individual coverage.

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