When you look like I do, you get used to people staring. The nudges and pointing and whispering between as they survey my matchstick legs. My body may be ravaged but my ears are not, I’ve heard the ...
C. Lai . Women often don't even know that they have an eating disorder, despite having severe health complications. Even if they do realise that they have a disorder, it is almost impossible to ...
People with anorexia often experience skin issues, including acne. This may be due to nutritional deficiencies, stress, and other psychological factors. Not everyone with an eating disorder ...
Anorexia and OCD are disorders that interconnect, often driven by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are two distinct mental ...
WHO does it affect?: Anyone can suffer from anorexia: male or female, young or old, rich or poor or somewhere in between, black or white or Asian or Hispanic or interracial, ANYONE! This eating ...
Think anorexia is a teen disease, or a habit taken up by spoiled, white rich girls? Think again. White women in their teens and 20s still account for most anorexia cases in the U.S. But experts ...
Eating disorders come with both emotional and physical symptoms and include anorexia nervosa (voluntary starvation), bulimia nervosa (binge-eating followed by purging), binge-eating disorder ...
An eating disorder is a collection of interrelated eating habits, weight management practices and attitudes about food, weight and body shape that have become disordered. Some common features of ...