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Tips for the Festive Season
The festive period can come with extra challenges for those affected by eating disorders, and the heightened focus on food can lead to anxieties and negative thinking. It's important to identify and talk openly about what things may cause stress or worry - for the...
Strategies to help on how to deal with an eating disorder during coronavirus lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many people's mental health in ways we might not have anticipated. For anyone dealing with an eating disorder, the coronavirus lockdown poses some unique challenges. We explore some strategies that may help. Living with an eating...
Reminders for People with Eating Disorders During the COVID-19 Outbreak
I can honestly say that nothing I learned in treatment really prepared me for a pandemic. And yet here I am, staring down empty grocery store shelves and self-isolation orders, wondering how I’m going to keep myself nourished when — truth be told — my anorexia seems...
COVID-19: Tips for people with an eating disorder
With COVID-19 being the main focus of the media, our social media feeds, and conversation within our community it’s normal to feel anxious or uneasy about what this means for you. In times of uncertainty and with social isolations being encouraged, it is easy to feel...
Signs of eating disorders that often go unnoticed: ‘They’re not about food’
Although a symptom of eating disorders can include an obsession over weight, this is just one piece of a larger puzzle, experts say. An eating disorder can develop when an individual attempts to treat the lack of control they may have in other areas of their life...
Diabulimia: ‘Diabetes and eating disorder almost killed me’
When it was at its worst, Gwen Edwards thought: "How on earth am I still here?" She lives with insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes. But nearly five years ago, she started skipping the injections that were keeping her alive, in a bid to stay thin. Now the 22-year-old...
Freddie Flintoff to confront his eating disorder in personal documentary
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff will recount his experience of bulimia in a personal documentary for BBC One. The former cricketer and Top Gear host, 42, developed the eating disorder after joining the England side, prompted by scrutiny from fans, the press and his...
Eating Disorders, Exercise Addiction Go Hand in Hand: Study
People with an eating disorder are much more likely to have exercise addiction than those with normal eating habits, British researchers say. They analyzed data from more than 2,100 people who took part in nine studies in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia...
The Aging of Eating Disorders: Middle-aged Women Fight the Devastating Disease
With a mortality rate higher than any other mental illness, including depression, eating disorder awareness ought to pervade society and the medical community alike. Sadly, they don’t.
I’m a man and I have an eating disorder. That’s not a contradiction
By John Paul Brammer I don’t remember the first time I purged. I remember it being a habit, a nightly ritual. I remember the pattern of the bathroom tiles in my parents’ house. White, diamond-shaped tiles, grout, the smell of toilet water – I spent a lot of time in...
Like many older women, I have an eating disorder. Time to remove the stigma
By Gilian Havey, Freeland Writer As the cookie crumbles in my mouth, delivering a shot of much-needed sugar, a sudden urge flashes across my mind. I am tempted to grab another, and another, before dashing to the loo to purge. Stilling myself, I engage rationally with...
I promise you, that as hard as recovery from an eating disorder is, it’s worth it – Louise O’Neill
Louise O'Neill is the award-winning author of Only Ever Yours, Asking for It, Almost Love and The Surface Breaks, with a reputation for hard-hitting books tackling feminist themes. The day my Leaving Cert results were issued, I was in Spain. My father had gone to the...
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