Eating Disorders

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need - Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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Overcoming My Eating Disorder Was The Beginning Of A New Life

The person I am talking about is myself. Everyone is not the same, but I would like to think that when others read this, people will take comfort in the single fact: they are not alone. It allows people to believe that it does not matter the amount of pain and loss you feel because for every downfall, there is always a bright spot.

My journey started in the summer of grade ten. I began to work out and started eating healthy because I just didn't like who I was becoming or how I looked. On the first month, I lost five pounds. I continued to lose weight and people noticed. I was getting complimented left and right on how much weight I was losing.

What people didn't…

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A Strange New Culprit Behind Eating Disorders

Common infections such as strep throat might have a mysterious link to anorexia and bulimia.

Fitness trackers and eating disorders – is there a link?

Research has for a long time highlighted how monitoring behaviours can help to lead to positive changes in our lifestyles. It can be an effective way to help increase physical activity, and to achieve weight loss. But monitoring physical activity and food intake may not be useful for everyone. Indeed, people with eating disorders often have unhealthy relationships with food and exercise. Obsessive behaviours such as calorie counting, rigid, driven exercise and unhealthy perfectionism are common among those with eating issues.

How many people have eating disorders? We don’t really know, and that’s a worry

Despite our lack of prevalence data, there is evidence showing eating disorders are an increasing problem and should be regarded as a national priority. Consecutive population surveys in South Australia showed the numbers of people with eating disorders climbed over a ten-year period.

How Virtual Reality Is Being Used to Treat Eating Disorders

With a combination of VR and traditional therapy, psychologists are helping patients work through anxieties related to body image

Recognizing Eating Disorders in Time to Help

Experts say an eating disorder should not be considered normal adolescent behavior, and they urge adults to try to stop the problem before it becomes entrenched.

Articles of Interest

A Comprehensive Guide to Eating Disorders and How to Help

At least 9% of both the U.S. and worldwide populations are affected by eating disorders. Additionally, the illnesses continue to be stigmatized, making it harder for people to seek treatment—which means the number of cases may be higher.

Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels

Eating disorders thrive on secrecy and very few people and celebrities come out and admit they have weight problems, food issues or disorders of any sort. Kate Moss inadvertently let her dieting philosophy slip, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".

Eating Disorders Do Not Discriminate

Puncturing the dangerous myth that only white women get eating disorders.

Elite female athletes at greater risk of eating disorders

Aesthetic and endurance athletes are most at risk of eating disorders. Sports such as cycling, dance and high jump, often perceive a slender body and a very low fat percentage as crucial for optimal performance. Here the expectation of a defined, trim body may lead to an exaggerated preoccupation with body shape, diet and weight loss – the precursors to disordered eating and extreme weight loss.

How Pro-Eating Disorder Posts Evade Filters on Social Media

A new study shows how sites like Instagram and Pinterest struggle to moderate pro-ED content—or even keep their recommendation algorithms from surfacing it.

Impossible Perfection

Eating disorders are a serious problem in the LGBTQ community—one we too often ignore.

Netflix’s To the Bone doesn’t glamorize eating disorders. It’s frank, funny, and unsparing.

To those who’ve had a brush (or worse) with the twisted, upside-down universe of eating disorders, To the Bone bears the unmistakable ring of truth, even in the midst of its humor and warmth. There are the obsessive patterns, the insistence that everything’s fine when it obviously isn’t. There are the furtive attempts to pass along “tricks” and contraband substances to help others with eating disorders slowly make themselves disappear.

One Man's Story of Eating-Disorder Recovery

Brian Cuban, younger brother of relentless billionaire Mark Cuban, on a life of shame and rejection—and what turned it around.

To Treat Eating Disorders, It Sometimes Takes Two

Romantic partners of someone with an eating disorder often want to help, but simply don’t know how.

What Katie Couric Didn't Say About Eating Disorders In Women Over 50

But it’s important to remember that the family of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder, are not just problems of the young. While they can often start in early adulthood, the teenage years, or even in childhood, they often extend into middle-age or later, as doctors are seeing more and more.

When You're Worried a Friend Has an Eating Disorder, It's Time to Make Some Hard Calls

Here's how to decide if you should say something.

Resources

5 Misconceptions About Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are more than just "extreme dieting," they are psychological disorders that stem from complex underlying issues. There are many stereotypes and myths surrounding eating disorders, and the resulting stigma can make it more difficult for those affected to seek treatment.

Beat

Beat provides helplines, online support and a network of UK-wide self-help groups to help adults and young people in the UK beat their eating disorders.

Mirror Mirror

If you’re looking for eating disorder help, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll tell you how to find the eating disorder treatment you need, try to answer all your questions and provide you with all the eating disorders information you need, including some relevant eating disorder statistics that may shock you. We want you to be fully informed so you can begin the recovery process.

Project HEAL

Project HEAL: Help to Eat, Accept and Live is the largest nonprofit in the U.S. delivering prevention, treatment financing, and recovery support for people suffering from eating disorders.

WithAll

We are a nonprofit working with individuals and partners to empower eating disorder prevention and strengthen support for recovery, providing simple and accessible tools that help people act. Whether on proactive paths or in crisis moments, we provide services and resources to help all create and recover health.

Within

Modern. Convenient. Clinically-Superior. We work with individuals suffering with every form of eating disorder, everywhere, in every body.

Eating Disorder Hope

Eating Disorder Hope’s mission is to offer hope, information, and resources to individual eating disorder sufferers, their family members, and treatment providers. The organization began with the help and advice of colleagues, professors, and other organizations specializing in eating disorders.

Eating Disorders Resource Center

The mission of Eating Disorders Resource Center (EDRC) is to increase awareness and understanding of eating disorders for the general public and for health professionals; to promote early diagnosis, effective treatment, and recovery; and to advocate for mental health parity legislation and effective insurance coverage.

EDReferral.com

Links and referrals to resources for eating disorders.

International Journal of Eating Disorders

IJED’s mission is to advance the scientific knowledge needed for understanding, treating, and preventing eating disorders. The journal achieves its mission by publishing rigorously evaluated, high-quality manuscripts for distribution through print and electronic platforms to an international readership of health professionals, scientists, and advocates.

National Centre for Eating Disorders

The National Centre For Eating Disorders, established in 1984, is an independent organisation set up to provide solutions for all eating problems, compulsive or "binge" eating, failed or "yo-yo" dieting, bulimia and anorexia.

National Eating Disorders Association

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting individuals and families affected by eating disorders. NEDA supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures and access to quality care.

Science of Eating Disorders

Making sense of the latest findings in eating disorders research.

The Eating Disorder Institute

The Eating Disorder Institute is a space of applied science—the research is synthesized and evaluated with complete transparency so that you can make some decisions for yourself. The Eating Disorder Institute is an utterly independent organization with no sponsorship, funding or financial conflicts-of-interest.