There is never a “convenient” time to engage in eating disorder treatment. Life involves many roles and responsibilities, none of which are easily cast aside to enter into an inpatient or residential facility or receive intensive care. The irony is that it is often the stress from these daily roles and stressors that triggers disordered [...]
The nightmare happened. Your child was sick with an illness that you did not see coming or know how to help them. You are a loving and great parent. You supported them and learned what you needed to so that they could get the help that they needed. They are working toward finding recovery despite [...]
Studies show that multi-faceted eating disorder treatment leads to the most successful outcomes. Broadly, this means individuals have a higher chance of recovery if they are treated by a team of therapists, medical doctors, nutritionists, and possibly physical therapists. Outside of these main players, individuals may enlist their own specific types of support, such as [...]
A huge life-change or world event will impact individuals to varying degrees. Eating disorders during COVID-19 are no different. By late-May 2020, one-third of Americans were showing signs of clinician anxiety, presumably related to the outbreak of COVID-19 [1]. For some populations, the impact is predictable, and we have seen that in the way the [...]
The Health At Every Size® (HAES) approach is a continuously evolving alternative to health’s conventional weight-centered approach. The conventional weight-centered approach to health emphasizes measures like weight and BMI as essential health indicators. This conventional model of health often purports weight loss, weight control, or weight management as an effective way to improve or sustain [...]
Contributor: Staff at Carolina House Many people have started to turn to clean eating to lose weight or get healthier. But for some people, eating clean can actually put them at an increased risk for developing certain eating disorders, like orthorexia. As a purportedly more nutritious way to eat, clean eating has cropped up all [...]
Contributor: Staff at Carolina House It is no surprise that women from all backgrounds may go through a period of disordered eating and body dissatisfaction at some point in their life. Historically, therapists have been aware of disordered eating among adolescents and young adults, but now clinicians are facing increased instances of disordered eating among [...]
In this series’s first two articles, we explored the unique aspects of military members’ experiences related to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa development and treatment. This final installment will focus on Binge Eating Disorder (BED). The previous articles explored the challenging emphasis on power, control, and perfection in the military subculture as well as how [...]
The first article in this series made it clear that the subculture of the military comes with its own unique challenges that impact eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. The emphasis on power, control, and perfection, as well as physical fitness and the thin ideal, can absolutely lead to [...]
According to the National Guard Association of the United States, Eating disorder diagnoses among military members have risen 26% over five years (1). The military and anorexia have a complicated relationship. Military personnel undergo unique life experiences that can make them more vulnerable to these disorders. In this 3-part series, we will examine how military [...]
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