OA Meeting Summary

Members Present: Mr. Bill Bowen, Chairman; Mr. Baxter Rice Vice-Chair, Mr. Buzz Breedlove Board, Secretary, Mr. David Clisham, BG James Gabrielli, MG David Baldwin, Mr. Steve Samuels, Mr. Sedrick Tydus, and Mr. Joe Wire. Members. Members Absent: VADM Jody Breckenridge. Staff: LTC Richard Wallis, Superintendent; Mrs. Rachel Mahlke, Mr. Luis Garza, Mrs. Johnna Grell, SFC Rodrigo Leanos, Mrs. Estephanie Fuentes, Mr. Salvatore Siino, MAJ Pernell Johnson, Mrs. Sahiry Ireland, Mr. Sean Moler, and Mrs. Cesley Frost. Public: Mr. Brandon Hardin, LTC Joel Armstrong, Mrs. Soundra Leek, and Mr. Arnold Grisham. Cadets: Franki Magaña, Verania Amaton, and Gerald Liddle.

Beto explains what advocacy means in town meetings and mentions that money is deeply corrosive to policy, outcomes and our democracy. Not everyone that serves in congress is seen as dependable with the 10% approval rating from citizens but when he was sworn in, he found out that they turned out to be hard working and service oriented. The reason for it having a low approval rate was that every single decision is driven by money which influences the way that congress vote on the 2,000 legislations that comes before them. At the end of the day, money won’t change people’s issues and Beto promises that it will never even change his. Beto asked to be on the Veteran affair committee which is seen as an unpopular undertaking and claims to be one of two people who do not take a dime of money from special interest groups. He assures that the public doesn’t have to worry if he is voting for something with ulterior motives. Beto and Ro Khanna from California are the two congressmen that don’t take PAC money and want to generate a bill that removes PAC money from politics. From his organizations findings, they were able to

Alcoholics Anonymous is not a religion, it is a spiritual program. In a religion you do certain things or act certain ways to

Dr. Canavero told Fresh Scientist which in the event the person awakes, many people can proceed their own whole body and their own voice would likely noise a similar. He or she feels the individual can stroll within 1 year through bodily treatment.

Sober means an individual is not intoxicated or high, but dry drunks, altering the way they drink or use drugs. Whereas, recovery is the healing and changing one’s behavior of getting better emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually while sober, working through the topics that cause the individual to drink and use drugs; realizing that drugs and alcohol were the answer to the problem, not the problem themselves (Alcoholics Anonymous, 2001; SMART Recovery, 2016).

These meetings were popularly called or criticized as “90-day meetings”” (FA-facts, n.d.). OA meeting had grown in multiple states in U.S and Germany. In 1998, a small group gathered and discuss the possibility of establishing a separate program and “Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous” was legally incorporated in 1998. FA had been grown for several years and now the meetings held in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, and England. “According to the 2009 census, total FA membership is just over 4,000” (FA-Facts, n.d.). Any gender, any age, and any weight range can join FA if individuals are having trouble controlling the way to eat. The goal of FA is to help one another recover from addiction through shared experience and mutual support. It also teaches how to maintain the health, and change attitudes and behaviors through admitted individuals are powerless over food, turn the will and lives over to the care

2. Universality - demonstration that we are not alone in our misery or our "problems". By attending the AA meetings, the members knew that they were not alone and there are others struggling with the same issue.

Overeater Anonymous (OA) is a support group for individuals who have problems related to food such as compulsive overeater, binge eating disorder, bulimics and anorexics. The meeting was located at the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin at 133 West 46th Street, NYC on Friday at 6pm. The meetings are open to anyone who wants to obtain more information about the OA support group and/or ways to deal with overeating. The meeting was more lecture-based as it attempts to teach the individuals ways to deal with their compulsive disorder. The OA meeting is a non-profit support group collecting any contributions that that the group can make to fund its meetings.

Over the weekend, I attended an Overeaters Anonymous meeting at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills. This meeting was open to OA members and non-OA visitors. Each meeting is composed with special topics such as, a book study, lifeline, speaker, or newcomer’s stories have a defined topic of discussion. However, these meeting have certain bylaws that are strictly followed, which is the only requirement for OA membership and that is the desire to stop eating compulsively. Each attending member is asked to respect the meeting’s group conscience and give a voice to any person who has the desire to stop their addiction of overeating.

The group is considered a support group because it consists of women who share the same experience and seek comfort with one another. “Support groups bring

In our Western society, we have several different types of eating dysfunction, all of which are unique and tragic in their own right. Despite their individuality, however, they all have several overlapping symptoms that are key to their classification and severity. For Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder (BED), one of the core features is binge eating, which can be defined objectively by number of calories eaten in a given time or subjectively by the feelings of the binger. Binge eating has many different aspects that are of interest to scientists and clinicians alike. One of those interests has to do with the reduction of this symptom among populations being treated for their respective disorder. Because both

Mclorg and Taub (1987) noted that this form of treatment allowed many of the respondents sought out for psychiatric treatments to diminish the illness. They did not follow up to see the rate of relapse or question the participants about their feelings toward the group therapy and if the presence of therapy truly helped diminish their eating disorder. A factor aside from background that was significant in this case study was the use of advertisement. All participants openly chose to attend the group in search of treatment.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-V provides a thorough definition of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). The definition aids in clarifying how AFRID is distinct from other eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, and is not associated with the absence of food or culturally authorized practice. This definition can best help to understand and properly diagnose a client that exhibits the characteristics of a eating or feeding disorder such as Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder.

Thorough this further oral activity, analyzing one of the NEDA's campaigns, I came to a much greater understanding of eating disorders, especially exercise bulimia and how those issues can be presented to the public eye in order to raise awareness and prevent further problems. NEDA is the national eating disorders association based in US, which is a non-profit organization that helps people fight against different eating disorders and raises awareness. Finding one of their campaigns online, it really caught my attention, which is one of the reasons why I decided to analyze their campaign. Another important reason was having a friend who went through an eating disorder and by who's side I was, meaning that it is a very

I attended an A.A. meeting on April 5, 2010. Before the meeting I seemed very anxious. This was not my first meeting I have been to meetings before but they all seem to make me nervous. When I arrived the nervousness had eased off because everyone had made me feel welcomed. I was made to feel like a part of their family from the beginning to the end of the meeting. I seemed to have realized I missed going to these meetings and I miss the fellowship but it has not interfered with me staying sober.