Escalating Eating Disorders in Kids During COVID-19

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Teen thinking about Adolescent Body Angst Eating disorders are complex disorders that affect someone’s physical and mental health. While eating disorders are characterized by someone’s relationship with food, exercise, and body image, these conditions aren’t really about this [1]. Even though food and body image can provoke someone with an eating disorder to experience a lot of distress, the eating disorder [...]
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Dietitians & Standards for Care in Eating Disorders

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Woman after having found meaning in her life People who are in recovery from an eating disorder often work with a team of professionals, sometimes including a dietitian. This is because an eating disorder is a complex diagnosis. Eating disorders are not just mental health conditions, they also have an equally important medical aspect. In order for all pieces of the eating disorder [...]
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Anorexia Nervosa Treatment – Unique Nutritional Needs

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Man drinking sugar-sweetened beverages Anorexia Nervosa is one of the most prolific eating disorder diagnoses, characterized by restriction of food intake, overwhelming fear of gaining weight, and having a distorted view one oneself. Individuals with this disorder have unique nutritional needs that must be considered in their treatment. A starved body results in a starved brain that can impact [...]
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Is TikTok Encouraging Teens to Develop an Unhealthy Relationship with Their Bodies?

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Social Media Icons Contributor: Staff at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center Over the past several years, TikTok has become one of the most popular video apps in the world, with more than 800 million users [1]. Like other major social media platforms, people use TikTok to share experiences, connect with others, and learn about practically any topic you [...]
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Tips for Communicating Eating Disorder Concerns with your Romantic Partner

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Couple setting boundaries Communicating the eating disorder struggles you are experiencing can be overwhelming. Even verbalizing the thoughts, feelings, and urges arising within your mind and body with eating disorder can be difficult to put into words, let alone verbalize to another person or partner. When that person is a partner, you may feel even more intimidated or [...]
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Somatic Therapy & Trauma

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Woman considering anorexia recovery Treating the impacts of trauma must be done very carefully, as revealing and exploring these experiences long after they have passed can cause retraumatization and increase the individual’s struggle. Some professionals believe in a “top-down” treatment approach to trauma, which involves focusing on cognitions and the “thinking brain [1].” Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, is an [...]
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No Place for Weight Stigma in the Doctor’s Office

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Woman in the sunset enjoying exercise Most would agree that the doctor’s office is no place for discrimination. Why, then, do we accept it in relation to body weight, size, and shape? Weight stigma is more common in the Doctor’s office than may be expected. It is abhorrent enough that “people with obesity elicit negative feelings such as disgust, anger, blame [...]
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Health at Every Size – Challenging Cultural Assumptions

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China woman thinking about her inner child and eating disorder treatment There are many beautiful aspects of diverse cultural beliefs, customs, and assumptions that make each of them unique and special to those that hold them dearly. Even so, the same cultural beliefs that can comfort some may be discriminatory to others. Throughout history, this has been seen with centuries-long fights to eradicate racism, sexism, homophobia, [...]
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