Bulimia in Royalty – Inside Princess Diana’s Eating Disorder

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Princess Diana dancing Instances are few-and-far between of public figures discussing their eating disorders in years past. One instance of this that left an indelible impact came from a woman who has become known for her resilience in the face of private turmoil – Princess Diana. Diana’s struggle with bulimia was first brought to light in 1992 when [...]
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Stress, Tolerating the Unknown & Eating Disorder Development

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Woman standing on river rocks Eating disorders and not all about food. It is often an underlying issue such as anxiety, depression, mood disorders, or trauma that lead a person to cope with symptoms through disordered eating, unhealthy coping behaviors, and obsessive thoughts and worry about body size, shape, and food. Often the behaviors are about control within the eating [...]
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The Many Different Roles of Shame in Eating Disorders

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Man struggling with an Eating Disorder, Anxiety & Addiction Shame is generally viewed as an emotion of self-comparison. As Theodore Roosevelt famously stated, “Comparison is the thief of joy,” and this is certainly true of shame in eating disorders as well. More broadly defined, shame “involves a fear or expectation of eliciting disgust in others (and)…is experienced when one perceives oneself to be judged [...]
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Chewing and Spitting – Do I have an Eating Disorder?

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Woman laying in grass, struggling with Disordered Eating In the realm of eating disorders, there are many behaviors that, while troublesome and harmful, may not be viewed as a disorder because they have no DSM diagnosis. However, one study points out that “eating disorders are characterized by abnormal eating behaviors directed at avoiding weight gain or inducing weight loss [1].” Determining the question [...]
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Reducing Weight Stigma in Clinical Settings for ED Treatment

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Woman working at reducing Weight Stigma in ED treatment Weight stigma is a negative belief or judgment about another person or self, based on weight, shape, and size. In studies looking at weight stigma in the general population from preschool through adulthood, children as young as three had negative stigmas around weight. Many elementary school children and college students, when asked, felt that peers [...]
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Specialized Programs for Long-Term BED Recovery

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Girl thinking about her goals for the day in Bulimia Recovery Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is classified as “recurrent binge eating accompanied by the feeling of loss of control over eating without regular compensatory behavior [1].” As of the DSM-V, BED is its own eating disorder category, a change most likely made due to its extreme prevalence as the most common eating disorder, which affects up [...]
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Hiding Orthorexia Nervosa: Restricting in the Name of Health

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Woman with BED walking her dog Orthorexia is a relatively new term within the eating disorder field. It is not a diagnosable disorder but is considered a type of disordered eating. Those with orthorexia typically fixate on healthy or ‘clean’ eating. It can start as a small change in eating where a person is working on incorporating less processed foods into [...]
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