It may be difficult for many to understand how and why people with anorexia nervosa starve themselves. A natural response to someone who is malnourished and underweight might be “just eat more!” But eating for someone with anorexia is far more difficult and...
Eating Disorders in Teens: How Can Parents Catch Them? Eating disorders are serious, life-threatening conditions that can become chronic and cause lasting health problems if left untreated. In spite of the critical nature of eating disorders, they often go...
There’s been a great deal of research over the last twenty years as those in the medical community seek to isolate the most effective methods for treating eating disorders. Consistently, the research comes back to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – and specifically the...
Eating disorder sufferers experience distress before mealtime, during mealtime, after mealtime… In other words, when in the throes of an ED there is little reprieve from food-related fear, anxiety, and preoccupation. With treatment there can be relief from these...
So often, the stigmas surrounding eating disorders are attributed to cisgender, white, female populations when in reality, eating disorders are not bound to race, gender or age. Considering that one study identified that “trans individuals have nearly 5 times the...