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Exercise addiction is often overlooked as a disorder because sufferers are seemingly engaged in a healthy behavior. But an obsession with working out insidiously interferes with emotional stability, social functioning, productivity at work--and it comes with serious physical health consequences. This book takes on exercise addiction from its symptoms to its treatment, including narratives from sufferers throughout.
List of contents
1. What It Is - Defining Exercise Addiction
2. What It Looks Like - The Signs and Symptoms of Exercise
3. Who Coined It? - A Brief History of Exercise Addiction
4. How It Begins - The Origins of Exercise Addiction
5. What It Does - The Short and Long Term Health Risks of Exercise Addiction
6. Why It Happens - Thinspiration's Darkside
7. What It Feels Like - Exercise Addicts' True Stories
8. What To Do About It - Treatment
9. How To Approach Someone With A Problem
10. Frequently Asked Questions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the author
Katherine Schreiber is a recovering exercise addict and writer whose work has been published in Psychology Today, where she previously worked as an editor, TIME Healthland, Weight Watchers Magazine, on Greatist.com, and on Psychcentral.com. She has also appeared on ABC Nightline, currently lives in New York City, and is working on her second book about female sexuality and double lives.
Heather A. Hausenblas, PhD, is an internationally renowned physical activity and healthy aging expert, researcher, and author. Her research focuses on the psychological effects of health behaviors across the lifespan. Hausenblas is the coauthor of 5 scientific books, and she has published more than 90 scientific journal articles. She has conducted more than 200 national and international scientific presentations. She has also received several research awards and grants. She was a faculty member and director of the Exercise Psychology Lab at the University of Florida from 1998 to 2012. She is currently an associate professor at Jacksonville University in the College of Health Sciences.
