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Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Fact: you can’t tell if someone has an eating disorder just by looking at them
Fact: eating disorders are not a choice
Fact: eating disorders can affect anyone
Fact: full recovery from an eating disorder is possible
It’s eating disorder awareness week so I’m posting this image from the National Eating Disorder Association. There are several images you can share to raise awareness on eating disorders and to show that they don’t discriminate against age, gender, or race.
-Eating disorders also aren’t always visible. You can’t tell if someone is struggling based on how they look.
-Eating disorders often go hand-in-hand with anxiety/depression.
-Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder.
-Eating disorders are not just about restricting. There are many unhealthy behaviors people engage in (restricting, binging, purging, over-exercise, diet pills, laxatives, ect…)
Visit NEDA’s website for a free screening, talk to friends/family, or reach out to a mental health professional if you’re struggling. Recovery is possible 💕
Anonymous asked:
Well, there are a lot of reasons. One is that you’re not getting the nutrients you need and it’s also just extremely unhealthy for you in general. It does a lot of damage to your body.
Just some of the things:
Then of course there are all of the emotional and psychological ways purging fucks with you. When you don’t get the proper nutrients, it affects your organs… your brain is an organ. It makes it difficult to concentrate and make decisions and could trigger depression.
It doesn’t seem all that bad to people but long-term… throwing up is something that could kill you.
You’re forcing your body to do something it doesn’t want to, the only reason we get sick like that when we’re ill or when we take something bad for us is because our body is protecting us. Like, if you drink milk that’s gone bad, you may get sick. That’s your body taking care of itself.
Self induced vomiting is forcing your body to do that when there’s no reason to. Also remember that you have stomach acid. So now you’re forcing acid up through your body destroying the lining of your stomach and esophagus.
There’s really way more but the bottom line is that it will eventually kill you.
more than prostate cancer by julie.anna on Flickr.
Eating disorders.I did not know anyone who had one, and to me, they just seemed a little strange.I would wonder “Well, if they do not like doing it, why do they not just stop?”.Little did I know.My name is Jack, and I suffered with Bulimia Nervosa for over 3 years.Today, I am happy to say, I am fully recovered, and I want to give hope and encouragement to other men out there that recovery really is possible.It goes without saying, living with an eating disorder is tough. Although being a man with an eating disorder, I believe adds an extra layer of shame and embarrassment on top. Society’s image of the typical male is someone who is strong, tough, is not prone to mood swings, does not cry, and I am pretty certain, does not stress over the fat content of a rice cake.
I never did open up to my male friends about my eating disorder. They just would not understand, and that is a shame. Heck, I barely understood what was going on myself.
Most of the online forums and support groups are female orientated. So, as a male, you begin to wonder where you belong.
For me, that felt painfully lonely.
This is why I want to share my story today. I want other men to know that yes, we are out there. Men do suffer from eating disorders. But, more importantly, I want them to know that with the right support you CAN recover.
Click link for Jack’s full story.
A lot of people in recovery have celebrities who have lived with or overcome the same disorder as them as a motivation to recover, inspiration, or living proof that they can get through what they’re going through and move on to great things.
This is extremely common with eating disorders.
However, we mostly see female celebrities. They’re in the news and online and everywhere we look. Since men are less commonly noticed when it comes to eating disorders, we don’t often have those male celebrities for people to look to so I compiled a small list of some famous guys who suffered eating disorders.
*Note: If you decided to look at these celebrities online you need to be aware of possible triggers with numbers and images. Jeremy GIllitzer and Michael Krasnow are probably the most visual triggers for those with restrictive eating disorders.
Remember that this is only a small list of the known male celebrities with eating disorders. There are more out there and many that no one even knows about. Most of these men have recovered and some are very open about their struggles.
1. Male eating disorders are on the rise – or more men are becoming brave enough to seek help. A January 2013 study estimated that 10 to 15 percent of anorexia and bulimia sufferers are male. Data from Britain’s NHS has shown a 66 percent increase in hospital admissions for male eating disorders over the last decade. It’s unclear whether this signals a vast increase in men struggling with disordered eating, greater awareness of how and where to get help, or both.
2. Men are affected by images of celebrities’ “perfect” bodies, too. “The Mask You Live In,” a new documentary from Jennifer Siebel Newsom, explores the pressure society puts on young boys to look and act “like a man.” Muscular, toned male bodies in the media are perhaps just as harmful as slim, pale female bodies.
3. Disordered eating in men may be linked to experiences of sexual harassment. A study released in May 2013 found that, among college-age participants, men who had experienced a high level of sexual harassment were more likely to purge or take laxatives than women who had gone through similar experiences.
4. Men who are critical about their bodies are less hopeful about finding a romantic relationship. According to an April 2013 study, the more often a male participant surveyed and judged his own body, the higher the level of body shame he experienced. In turn, men with a higher level of body shame were much less hopeful about their romantic prospects.
5. Treatment options are often tailored towards women – which can deter men from seeking help.
I have noticed this and it SERIOUSLY pissed me off which is why you’ll see on my resources page why I’m beginning to specify treatment centers with programs tailored to men.
6. Men face unique challenges in explaining their illnesses to friends and family. "It’s bad enough and hard enough for women to get help and be taken seriously, and men have to deal with an additional layer of stigma that supposedly challenges the way people see their masculinity and sexuality,“ eating disorder activist and blogger Matt Wetsel told The Huffington Post in August 2011.
So I saw what was happening online and wanted to see if anything was new on instagram too and check it out: NO TAGS FOUND!!
Fuck you thinspo!!
Just a reminder that not all eating disorders are restrictive. There are other unhealthy eating patterns or ways of people “managing” or “controlling” their body/weight/food.
Some people binge.
Some people purge.
Some people over exercise.
Some people take things that are unhealthy.
Some people do a combination of above and more.
So please remember that not everyone with an eating disorder needs to gain weight or even eat more. For some people it may actually be just the opposite.
Finally enjoying when a meal comes rather than fearing it…
