How to Enjoy Valentine’s Day When You’re in Recovery from an Eating Disorder

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Hearts for Love Contributor: Staff at Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center Major calendar events, including holidays like the Fourth of July, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day, are when people typically indulge in high-calorie foods and sweet treats. People often celebrate Valentine’s Day by going out for a fancy dinner or baking decadent desserts. This can prove stressful for those who [...]
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Clean Eating May Not Be the Healthiest New Year’s Resolution

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New Year's Thinking about switching to clean eating in the new year? You may want to reconsider. Supporters of clean eating say that it can help people boost their health. But when taken too far, this eating approach can cause some people to struggle with unhealthy eating behaviors, which can lead to an eating disorder if left [...]
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The Rise in Eating Disorders Among Adolescents Due to COVID-19

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Wearing Mask Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center To some extent, almost everyone’s world has been turned upside down by COVID-19. Even if the only real effects you’ve felt have been related to a shift in work environment, fewer dinners out, and the need to remember your mask, the pandemic has played at least some role [...]
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Having a Relationship While in Eating Disorder Recovery

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Navigating a relationship can be daunting, particularly for individuals recovering from an eating disorder. The recovery process may be very consuming, especially at first, and it can feel difficult or even dangerous to take too much time or focus away from that pursuit. Further along in recovery, other issues may arise, including triggers around body [...]
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Eating Disorders and Emotions: How Emotion Regulation Impacts Eating Behaviors

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Emotions Emotional dysregulation, or difficulties in managing and regulating emotions, is often a key factor in the development or sustainment of an eating disorder. Research shows that individuals with eating disorders frequently struggle with overwhelming emotions such as anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.1  These emotions, in turn, may lead to maladaptive coping strategies, such as frequent [...]
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Eating Disorder Levels of Care: Determining the Best Treatment

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Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions, which manifest as unhelpful and unhealthy attitudes and behaviors toward body weight, body image, food and eating. As such, a combination of medical, nutritional, and psychological interventions are often needed to successfully treat these conditions. Yet, there are many levels of care for eating disorder treatment, and the most [...]
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Binge Eating and Menstruation: How are They Linked?

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PMS The average menstrual cycle is full of ups and downs, and moments of pain and discomfort. But a menstrual disorder only makes these aches and agonies even more pronounced. These conditions are often related to larger-than-normal hormonal fluctuations during the monthly cycle, and these wider variations can impact everything from mood to physical health to [...]
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Food Hoarding Disorder: Signs, Causes & Treatment

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Nutrition Counseling Unhealthy behaviors and attitudes around food and eating can have any number of origins, including through the experience of starvation or trauma. A history of food insecurity can lead to food hoarding, or contribute to other disordered eating behaviors that may develop into more complex mental health conditions, including binge eating disorder (BED). And a history of [...]
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Eating Disorder Statistics: What the Numbers Reveal

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Statistics Eating disorders are a group of complex mental health conditions that involve disturbances in eating behaviors, body image, and self-esteem. They include anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge-eating disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, bulimia nervosa, emotional eating, and laxative abuse. Eating disorders often begin during adolescence, highlighting the importance of early detection and intervention. [...]
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