Carhart-Harris believes that people suffering from other mental disorders characterized by excessively rigid patterns of thinking, such as addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder, could benefit from psychedelics, which "disrupt stereotyped patterns of thought and behavior".
While public awareness continues to improve, Dr. Bulik says she still sees some old ways of thinking about eating disorders that alarm her.
Those with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) generally have an inflexible pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving, whereas those with obsessive-compulsive disorder have obsessions (recurrent, persistent thoughts) and compulsions (repetitive behaviors).
Any personality disorder is a fixed, lasting pattern of thinking, feeling and acting that usually leads the person into emotionally and/or physically dangerous situations.
But Williams, now 32 and struggling with an autoimmune disorder, declined to subscribe to that line of thinking.
And the truth that there are physical, brain-specific causes of these mental disorders and diseases is a deeply disruptive way of thinking about them.
A personality disorder is where there is ongoing maladaptive patterns of thinking, behaviours and experiences that transcend different contexts and significantly affect much of the person's life.
Don't make the mistake of thinking you are not "skinny enough" to have an eating disorder.
New way of thinking: really?
