Eating Disorders
My Teen Daughter Gave Me Permission to Write about her Eating Disorder, ARFID By Stephanie Elliot
My daughter has an eating disorder and it’s unlike the usual suspects. Everyone is familiar with bulimia and anorexia nervosa, but what my daughter has is called ARFID, which stands for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. ARFID, simply put, is the fear of eating – extreme picky eating; the fear that if you try something new, […]
Eating Disorders: Haunting the 616.85 Section, a #MHYALit guest post by BELIEVAREXIC author J. J. Johnson
It may seem weird to talk about eating disorders in a week when we have been talking about food, but food is a complicated issue for a lot of people. It was for me. No, it is for me. And it is also for BELIEVAREXIC author J. J. Johnson. She contacted me about participating in […]
Book Review: Elena Vanishing: A Memoir by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle
The voices in our heads can be so cruel. For Elena, and many other people struggling with anorexia, the voices in our heads are persistent with one overriding message: you are not good enough. The only way to become good enough is to lower the number on the scale. And as you step on the […]
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The girl in the fiberglass corset: a story about scoliosis and eating disorders
The first time I had to wear it in public, I threw up. It was at my brother’s baseball game and there I was running to the bathroom to hurl. You see, unlike the corsets of old, it didn’t make me look thinner. No, it made me look . . . well, large. It being […]
Top 10 Tuesday: Body Image and Eating Disorders
Yesterday we talked about The List by Siobhan Vivian. One detail that didn’t come fully to light in our coverage is the story of Bridget, who develops an eating disorder. Her description on the “list” says this: what a difference a summer makes. What they don’t know is how she lost that weight over the […]
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