Looking Forward on the Road to Eating Disorder Recovery
It’s NEDAwareness Week 2020! The road to eating disorder recovery can feel long and arduous, but this is a week all about hope.
25
Feb
20
Feb
Therapy Aftercare and Eating Disorders
The process of recovering from an eating disorder is often challenging and long. Whatever type of eating disorder you’re suffering from – whether it be binge eating disorder, bulimia or anorexia – it’s important to remember that your problem didn’t begin overnight, so you should expect the process of recovery to also last for many […]
18
Feb
Fasting Too Far
Over the years there have been more trendy diets than you can shake a stick at. From the Atkins Diet to the Cabbage Soup Diet, each eating regime claims to be the best thing to lose weight and to get healthy. Yet, recently, there has been a trend towards very extreme diets. Some of the […]
13
Feb
Anorexia and Aging
Most people tend to think of anorexia as a disease that affects young women and teenage girls. However, this is certainly not the case. Although there is a growing awareness that anorexia and other eating disorders don’t discriminate on grounds of sex, race, age or sexuality, there is still a stereotypical view of what an […]
11
Feb
Alcohol Use and Eating Disorders: “Drunkorexia?”
How did you spend your days in college? These days, four out of five college students use alcohol — and half of all college drinkers are binge drinkers (meaning that men consume 5+ drinks and women consume 4+ drinks over the course of two hours). Binge drinking is dangerous on its own, but when combined […]
06
Feb
Body Image and Eating Disorders in the LGBTQ Community
When you picture someone with an eating disorder, what do you see? We often think of eating disorders as a disease affecting white, wealthy, cis-gendered teenage girls — when in reality, the breadth of who can be diagnosed with an eating disorder stretches far wider. In fact, the LGBTQ community is disproportionately affected by eating […]
04
Feb
Eating Disorder Stereotypes
When friends and family find out that someone they love has an eating disorder, we hope they react with love, compassion, and support. However, some may respond with “victim-blaming, cattiness or awkward silence,” as Bustle writes — in no small part due to harmful stereotypes about people with eating disorders. Eating disorder stereotypes are, unfortunately, […]
