Devon Price·6 hours agoMember-onlyWe Need A Harm Reductionist Approach to Eating DisordersPeople who don’t wish to ‘recover’ still deserve autonomy and care. — I just finished reading the book Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan last week, and it stands out to me as the first book I’ve ever read that applies a harm reduction framework to eating disordered behaviors. Harm reduction, for those unfamiliar, is an approach to public health issues…Eating Disorders12 min readEating Disorders12 min read
Life Fighting Ed·10 hours agoHow to chooseNo one ever told me how much I would struggle with all of the choices in recovery. Or how much just thinking of the choices would break me. Everything I do is related to something else. It feels like every move taints another. There isn’t always a clear choice, because…Eating Disorders2 min readEating Disorders2 min read
David A. Wiss·22 hours agoThe Nuances of Nutritional Treatment in the Context of Mental HealthThe Nuances of Nutritional Treatment in the Context of Mental Health Many eating disorders are associated with rules, restriction, deprivation, and internalized weight stigma. …Eating Disorders5 min readEating Disorders5 min read
Stephen ChamberlininInvisible Illness·16 hours agoMember-onlyThe “Voice” in Eating Disorder RecoveryIts existence is threatened by your recovery, yet listening to it poses an existential threat to you. — The Voice is King I can speak with some credibility. I am a 55-year-old man whose Anorexia Nervosa manifested in the early 1980s. Treatment at the time — or at least the treatment offered to me — was a physician (an “eating disorder specialist”) telling me to gain weight or he’d involuntarily hospitalize and…Eating Disorders6 min readEating Disorders6 min read
Mikaela YeagerinILLUMINATION·1 day agoMember-onlyDo You Suffer from Disordered Eating?Evidently, three out of four American women do — Western Society has done a phenomenal job of making eating food complicated. On the one hand, Big Ag lobbyists are cajoling us to eat Velveeta, Pop-Tarts, and Kentucky Fried Chicken because the nutrient-devoid ingredients in these foods are the ones they subsidize. On the flip side, the convergence of the…Eating Disorders6 min readEating Disorders6 min read
eca.fairyinILLUMINATION·3 hours agoWhy The Return of the “H*roin chic” is Toxic“H*roin chic” is a beauty standard that emerged in the 90s and followed up through the 2000s, defining the “very skinny” look as ideal. After it affected the mentality and mental health of so many people, a new body standard emerged: “the curvy hourglass” body. This was still the standard…Eating Disorders4 min readEating Disorders4 min read
Life Fighting Ed·1 day agoBut, why?In everything I have gone through this year one question always sticks out. But, why? This question has lead to so many answers, but also so many questions. I have learned while it can bring more knowledge and understanding, it’s also my resistance to some pretty important growth in my…Eating Disorders1 min readEating Disorders1 min read
Victoria TaylorinIn Fitness And In Health·1 day agoA Guide to Communicating with Someone Who Has an Eating DisorderIf you’re a friend or family member of someone who has an eating disorder, it can be challenging to know how best to support them. Knowing what not to say is also important in supporting someone with an eating disorder. Here are items that will help make communication more efficient. Don’t attempt to fix the situation …Eating Disorders3 min readEating Disorders3 min read
The Autlaw·Dec 8Give Yourself Permission to Enjoy “Childish " ThingsI was ridiculed for not acting age appropriate, but I wasn’t psychologically stunted, I was gloriously autistic — Trigger Warning: talks about eating disorders and treatment Six years ago, when I was in eating disorder treatment at a residential treament center, we had a dietitian who thought of herself as an ersatz psychologist in addition to advising people on nutrition. She was constantly overstepping her boundaries as a…Eating Disorders5 min readEating Disorders5 min read
Renae Nicole·6 days agoMember-onlyPeer Contagion: Why I Wasn’t the Only ED Survivor From My High SchoolHow Many People Have an Eating Disorder — Eating Disorders Run in Packs: A Deep Dive into Peer Contagion Among Eating Disorder Patients Off the top of my head, I can name three people from high school who had eating disorders. All girls and they all ran in my circle. Those were just the obvious ones, who knows how many more of my peers struggled with it. My eating disorder started in my…Eating Disorders7 min readEating Disorders7 min read
