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 the U.S. are battling eating [...]
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. [...]
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 or if I said I [...]
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