In my early years, about the end of middle school, I developed an eating disorder. I had anorexia along with binging and purging. My eating disorder got worse as I completed High school and began college. My parents sent me too different therapists and psychiatrists in the beginning. When it was clear that therapy and medication alone was not helping me, in 1988 my parents admitted me into a 90 day inpatient treatment program at Ana Kaseman. During this stay I was finally given tools to help me battle and deal with, but not overcome, my eating disorder.
Analysis:
An important medical sociological term regarding my recovery was social imagination. The sociological imagination helps those who are dealing with a medical issue to view the …show more content…
My parents decided the best solution was to send me to see therapists and psychiatrist. These Dr.’s only dealt with my individual issues instead of looking at my whole being and how it related to the outside world “what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves…this quality…(is) the sociology imagination” (Goodman, 2010 pg. 2 & 3). There was no sociological imagination. These Dr.’s simply resorted to the concept of the “magic bullet” (Cockerham, 2015) and kept prescribing antidepressants in hope one of them would cure me. Of course, there was no “magic bullet” found to cure me.
During my 90 day visit, we focused on the whole body and dealt with personal as well as social determinants. Due to social imagination, I learned I was not only being affected by my many social determinates such as family dynamics, life style, and social economic status (Cockerham, 2015), I was influenced by social structures such as the media and advertising. With this knowledge, counseling, education, and medication I was able to control, not cure, the societal disease called an eating
Analysis:
An important medical sociological term regarding my recovery was social imagination. The sociological imagination helps those who are dealing with a medical issue to view the …show more content…
My parents decided the best solution was to send me to see therapists and psychiatrist. These Dr.’s only dealt with my individual issues instead of looking at my whole being and how it related to the outside world “what they need…is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves…this quality…(is) the sociology imagination” (Goodman, 2010 pg. 2 & 3). There was no sociological imagination. These Dr.’s simply resorted to the concept of the “magic bullet” (Cockerham, 2015) and kept prescribing antidepressants in hope one of them would cure me. Of course, there was no “magic bullet” found to cure me.
During my 90 day visit, we focused on the whole body and dealt with personal as well as social determinants. Due to social imagination, I learned I was not only being affected by my many social determinates such as family dynamics, life style, and social economic status (Cockerham, 2015), I was influenced by social structures such as the media and advertising. With this knowledge, counseling, education, and medication I was able to control, not cure, the societal disease called an eating