Eating disorder ‘communities’ online can be dangerous places for young and impressionable teens. And social media algorithms further spread harmful content.
Engaging with people who accept and appreciate your body as it is can help you feel more at peace with how you look.
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After over a year of stress eating and seeing each other only through screens, anxiety over changes in physical appearance can make socializing again a daunting prospect.
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Two years ago an inquiry called for major reform of New Zealand’s mental health services, but since then, things got worse rather than better.
ARFID sufferers have an inherent fear of food and the act of eating.
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Avoidant restrictive intake food disorder is a relatively new condition that researchers are only beginning to understand.
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Data from around the world, including Australia, indicate the pandemic has made things more difficult for people with eating disorders for a variety of reasons.
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Mirror exposure therapy might actually exacerbate some symptoms for people with eating disorders.
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Disrupted routines, inaccessible health services and triggering public behaviours made the pandemic especially difficult.
Being kind and compassionate to yourself can help you avoid focusing on your body in an unhealthy way.
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Regular eating, social interaction and decreasing stress can all help when trying to reassert control over an eating disorder.
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People with eating disorders often struggle with staying in control. For many, the pandemic took away control. A health scholar shares her story of how that loss of control affected her bulimia.
Alexithymia is a personality trait characterised by an inability to identify and describe emotions.
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New findings that alexithymia in autistic people made them more vulnerable to eating disorders.
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Some people turn to a tub of ice cream. Others, to clean eating.
People with exercise addiction might feel withdrawal symptoms if they don’t exercise.
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Exercise addiction describes an obsessive or compulsive need to exercise – even when you’re injured.
Taylor Swift, one of millions of Americans who has struggled with an eating disorder.
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As National Eating Disorders Awareness Week is observed Feb. 24-March 1, here are some things to consider.
The more television people watch the more they prefer a thinner female body type.
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The more people watch TV the more likely it is that they prefer a slimmer female body size.
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Anxious teenage girls are more likely to fast – one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa.
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A small body of research has started to explore how fitness trackers and calorie counting apps might be linked to disordered eating and exercise.
Eating disorders disproportionately affect females and young people.
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As Australia considers its next national mental health survey, it’s crucial to include eating disorders. If we don’t have good data on how many people are suffering, we can’t come up with solutions.
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Data from England has found no link between increased social media use and a rise in diagnosed eating disorders.
Queer men are using comics as a medium of self-expression to challenge, destabilize or embrace ideas about body image. Here, an excerpt from ‘Garden’ by Derrick Chow.
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Queer men’s comics are contributing to changing cultural narratives about what queer men’s bodies should be, and health researchers are taking note.
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New research has found several physical and mental health indicators that often appear before an eating disorder diagnosis.