ACCORDING to a latest study, one integral reason why many people suffered from eating disorders is due to the invasion of their privacy by certain people. The study state as a person grows older he or she suffers various kinds of physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual, sexual, and creative interference, which has consistently ignored and penetrated …
The Media cast a major impact on the development of eating disorder. They create some unrealistic and hardly achievable expectation on what should a beautiful, attractive and fit body image look like. Most women in advertising, movies, TV, and sports programs are very thin which may instill the impression in common girls that the ideal …
Recovering from an eating disorder requires learning a whole new set of skills. One of those is the ability to identify, own and properly process emotions and feelings. That doesn’t sound that difficult, right? How hard can it be? Except that it can be. Heck – the reason we got started with our eating disorder …
When we hear of eating disorders, we always envision a teenage girl with bone-thin body who resists the very idea of food. Or maybe what comes into mind is a slender girl throwing up her dinner inside a dark toilet. But let’s face it–it’s very seldom that we suspect normal-weighing and normal-looking people to have …
A college student writes an advice columnist and asks, “My friend posted a picture of the weed he was trying to sell on Facebook the other day and although it looked great, I couldn’t help but wonder if there could be any legal backlash.” The answer? “Clearly, those drugs have gone to his head and …
Sundays I tend to be alittle more reflective, especially as my birthday strikes in just a few hours. As one who knows ED aren’t only the struggles of teens, this poem reminds me of the gift of accepting oneself. I Am Becoming by Jayne Relaford Brown I AM BECOMING the woman I’ve wanted, grey at …
Binging is a habit that is very difficult to crack. If you have never gone on a much-needed diet in your whole life, how in the world can you resist those sultry-looking foods that seem to always summon you? It would have been better if you enjoyed binging, but in the end you feel like …
Adolescents and children spend a good part of their day away from home, whether it’s at school or with friends. A lot of times people are not able to detect an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia in their children, because they seem to behave normally whenever they are at home (and parents are generally …
…to carry the body of a person who had anorexia? This public service announcement via the Tel Aviv office of McCann Erickson, is for an Israeli nonprofit called Beitech. “15% of women who suffer from anorexia will die this year.” Looks like a badly Photoshopped stock image. Some folks are upset because (beyond the fact …
Many people suffer from a number of eating disorder, but some have found a new form of an eating disorder to try…laxatives. Laxatives are somewhat of an easy way to lose weight, but they cause a enormous amount of damage to the body, especially the colon. Laxatives allow a person to eat pretty much whatever …
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