Housing basic and general eating disorders information, this page links to excellent places to start learning about what eating disorders are, symptoms, and diagnosis.
How many eating disorders are there? If you said that only two or three have names, you'd be right. But if you said that there are as many eating disorders as you can imagine you'd be right again? What are eating disorders, anyway?
How do you decide whether someone is too thin? And should a thin person worry about losing too much weight?
Eating disorder symptoms range from the curious to the unbearable. What eating disorder symptom do you hate the most?
Weight loss sells. It's a drive that cajoles, urges, even begs us to take up some form of dieting. Does the hope for weight loss usually lead to greater physical (or mental) health?
What are disorders? We use the word while assuming others know what we mean. But disorders vary in how they impact those who struggle with them, whether they manifest in mind, body, or both.
If you want to be anorexic, can you make it happen? Can you catch anorexia like the flu? And what would happen if you could?
Eating disorders are both psychological and physical in nature. An eating disorder is a pattern of eating that is particularly harmful to the body and mind. Eating disorders are often fueled by fear of being or becoming overweight.
Knowing whether you or a loved one has an eating disorder is key to beginning to move into healthier ways of living. But how do you find out whether an eating disorder diagnosis is appropriate in your situation?
Eating disorder symptom lists for major (and other) eating disorders. Eating disorder symptoms manifest in physical, mental, and behavioral ways.
The actual causes of eating disorders are elusive, but we do know many factors that contribute to eating disorder development.
The first step in overcoming an eating disorder is getting treatment. Eating disorder treatment comes in many forms, and most require multiple kinds of treatment to overcome their eating disorders.
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