What are eating disorders and what causes them?
Eating disorders involve difficulties in your relationship with food and your body, caused by or leading to distorted beliefs and attitudes about your appearance, weight, and self-worth. You may find yourself trapped in obsessive thoughts regarding food and your body, accompanied by feelings of self-doubt, shame, and fear—fear of weight gain, fear of recovery, fear of your disorder being discovered. These struggles can affect your relationships and impact your work or school life, leaving you feeling stuck. But it doesn't have to be this way forever.
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Anorexia/Atypical Anorexia
Restricting your dietary intake to the point of malnutrition, skipping meals, leaving out categories of food, fear of gaining weight, impact of shape/weight/size on your self-worth, potentially serious health consequences
Bulimia
Recurring episodes of eating a large volume of food, feeling out of control and unable to stop, feelings of disgust and shame, and then using compensatory behaviors to rid oneself of the food and/or calories, all in pursuit of the "thin ideal"
Disordered Eating
Chronic dieting, yo-yo dieting, consistently eating according to diet culture and the thin ideal instead of the body's natural and intuitive cues, "healthy" or "clean" eating to the point that eating becomes deprived and loses joy and/or causes distress