It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness week. The theme is “Everybody Knows Somebody”, eating disorders are very prevalent in this society… especially when much of popular culture seems to encourage disordered eating. Eating disorders are not lifestyle choices, they are serious illnesses with the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder …
Having an eating disorder is one of the reasons that I thought I might never become pregnant. And it’s true that if someone restricts or binges & purges long enough, they can cause irreversible damage to their fertility. I thought I was going to be one of those statistics. “Having …
This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. The theme for the year is “Everybody Knows Somebody.” The peak onset of eating disorders occurs during puberty and the late teen/early adult years, but symptoms can occur as young as kindergarten. As many as 10 million females and 1 million males in …
I love Pinterest! I think it’s a lot of fun to “pin” ideas that I find inspiring without having to necessarily accumulate all the clutter of actual paper. It’s convinced me that I could possibly build some of my own furniture (or… uh, make my husband build it, “It will …
I like things that are concrete. Real. Tangible. It doesn’t necessarily have to be something that I can hold; but I do prefer being able to see it, feel it, recognize it or know it. Running feels tangible to me. I can see that I have run X many miles. …
In 1949 Congress designated May as Mental Health Month. (That’s in addition to it being Skin Cancer Awareness Month!) Anyway, the purpose of the designation is to illustrate the importance of mental health issues to the overall health and well-being of American citizens. The phrase “mental health” has a lot …
This is a guest post by Aaron O’Connor, a former track & field athlete, currently a writer and amateur fitness trainer in Washington state. TreadmillReviews.net blog In general, exercise is a healthy behavior that encourages physical fitness and well-being. Yet for those individuals who suffer from eating disorders, exercise can …
I don’t know if you’ve really observed this, but if you pay attention… our society really loves disordered eating. It embraces it. It celebrates it. It worships it. The phrase “societal ED” doesn’t necessarily mean that society has an eating disorder, but there is a clear message in the world …
I’m really bad at reaching out to other people. The phrase I often use is that “I don’t want to burden others” with my problems. I often think that I can do it on my own, I don’t need to bother others and if I can’t do it on my …
I went public about my eating disorder on this site (and to many friends/family) during NEDAwareness week a year ago. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It was a hard decision, I often feel that it would be better received if I said that I was addicted to prescription pain killers …