How can people with eating disorders begin to challenge their negative body image? And can the wider population learn something from them? Change how you see, not what you see.
It’s all in the mind: take control of how you see yourself
The Elephant in the Room: What the struggle with body image tells us about the psychology of eating disorders, and their real causes
Eating disorders are often reduced to struggles over body image. Those struggles are a symptom of the illness, not the cause, and reveal a lot about the psychology of the illness.
Why we shouldn’t use ‘my’ to talk about mental illness
When talking about mental illness (especially eating disorders), we often use the word 'my'. But could this be doing more harm than good?
Accommodating ED: are you letting the eating disorder in?
In this article, I hope I can make clear what it means to accommodate and enable an eating disorder, and how individuals with a disorder and their carers can become aware of these behaviours, their consequences and how to stop them.
Don’t tell me I look well. But say it anyway
The reaction of people with an eating disorder to comments on appearance reveals a lot about the psychology of eating disorders
Eating Disorder Awareness Week (4): Now you know what to look for, what should you do?
In the last blog post, I tried to describe what it feels like to have an eating disorder, and set out the symptoms for the diffferent categories of the illness, not just anorexia. According to BEAT, 1.25 million peopole are living with an eating disorder, but that statistic may be an underestimation due to the … Continue reading Eating Disorder Awareness Week (4): Now you know what to look for, what should you do?
Eating Disorder Awareness Week (3): What exactly is an eating disorder then?
What are the signs & symptoms of an eating disorder, how does it actually feel?
Eating Disorder Awareness Week (2): You have to let go to recover
How writing a letter to the eating disorder can help to let go
Eating Disorder Awareness Week (1): it’s more than food.
Eating disorders are about more than just food.
