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 an Eating Disorder can increase [...]
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 of stigma surrounding it, in [...]
Now that my mileage is scaled back for awhile I’m going out on short runs with my beautiful pup. Aside from running with Jade, find out what else I’m doing to keep fit and feel good!
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 become an obsession or compulsion, [...]
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 today, particularly in America, that [...]
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 own I am being weak. [...]
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