Bad body image days are challenging. When you are in recovery, it can make it harder to nourish your body adequately. It may even create a fear of relapse. But have no fear! Here are some practical steps you can take to navigate these days with confidence. How Knowing Your Triggers Can Promote Body Image […]
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Everyone has their own unique mental image of what they look like. Whether or not the picture they’ve created is accurate is another question. Body image is something that can make you feel confident and powerful or can cause you to feel awkward and anxious. Factors including diet culture, social media, and outdated beauty standards
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What is Body Image Disturbance? Body image disturbance is one of the most common clinical features attributed to eating disorders. Most contemporary theories consider body dissatisfaction to be the most immediate or proximal antecedent to the development of an eating disorder and empirical studies indeed confirm this association. It is generally agreed that the body
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Social media is a popular tool for communication and entertainment. Few people would question the fact that people are spending an increasing amount of time on these new media platforms. In recent years, social media has become much more visual in presentation and layout. However, it’s the evolution of the technology used to manipulate and
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Did you know that it is entirely normal to body check and that almost all of us do it? However, body checking can become an unhealthy habit and is often associated with eating disorders. What’s Body Checking? Think about what you do before you go out the door to school, work, or meet your friends
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Many feel some discomfort or concern about their body image from time to time. It’s a normal experience for most people. But when those concerns become fixations on body weight, food intake, and weight loss, it becomes a problem. These may be signs of a potential eating disorder. Eating disorders are serious medical conditions that
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Transgender and ED: Building a Body to Fit the Mold When people think of eating disorders, the image that usually comes to mind is an adolescent or young adult female. Young women do make up the majority of individuals with diagnosed eating disorders while many other parts of the population suffer in silence. Eating disorder
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Body image and its portrayal in society have long been a subject of discussion. Society and the media often encourage a culture of fat shaming and weight stigma, which has created devastating consequences. Body image plays a critical role in understanding the treatment of eating disorders, and we have to look at the effect of
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According to research from Harvard Medical School, eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating, afflict more than 30 million Americans, while millions more experience disordered eating and weight control behaviors. This statistic is even more sobering when one considers the fact that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder
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Eating disorders and depression are potentially debilitating conditions on their own. When someone experiences both conditions simultaneously, it can become overwhelming. It may not seem fair to carry such a burden, but effective treatments exist—and they can be life-changing. The symptoms of depression often overlap with those of eating disorders, and it’s not uncommon to
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