Eating Disorder Awareness
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Eating Disorder Awareness
- Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Standing Up for Mental Health
- Latest Mental Health News
Eating Disorder Awareness
It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Yes, we still need it. You'd be surprised how many people write us every month saying they or their loved one have symptoms of an eating disorder, but they aren't sure if they REALLY have one. To be clear, if you are engaged in any of these eating disorder behaviors - excessively restricting food intake, bingeing, purging (through vomiting, laxatives, over-exercising or any other method) - and it's affecting your physical and/or mental health, then there's a high likelihood you have an eating disorder and you should seek professional eating disorder treatment.
Stigma and shame are other issues facing those with this mental illness. "Surviving ED" blog author, Jess Hudgens says the relationship between shame and eating disorders exists on several different levels.
We have many eating disorder videos and articles on the HealthyPlace.com website. In addition, Jess Hudgens and Emily Roberts, author of the "Building Self-Esteem" blog, have done special videos as part of Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Links to those are further down the page.
Related Articles
- What's All the Fuss About Eating Disorders, Anyway?
- Types of Eating Disorders
- Why Parents Find Eating Disorders Difficult To Understand (video)
- Eating Attitudes Test: Do I Have an Eating Disorder?
- Causes of Eating Disorders
- Eating Disorder Help: Where to Find Help for Eating Disorders
- All Eating Disorders Articles
Your Thoughts
Is there stigma associated with eating disorders? If so, have you experienced it? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
Get Our Mental Health Blog Widget
Nearly 200 sites and blogs are helping spread awareness of mental illness. How about putting our mental health blogs widget on your website, blog or social page? The latest HealthyPlace blog headlines appear as soon as the articles are posted on our site. Just click "Get Widget" at the bottom of the widget, grab the embed code and paste it into your page. You'll also see embed links for Wordpress, Blogger, Linkedin and other social sites there.
As a bonus, put the blogs widget on your site or blog, email us (info AT healthyplace.com) with a page link where it appears, and we'll give a shoutout to your site, blog, or social site on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Share our Stories
At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.
We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- PTSD Treatments: PTSD Therapy, PTSD Medications Can Help
- What Caused the Depression?
- Things I Wish People Understood About Mental Illness
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Experiences
Share your thoughts/experiences with any mental health subject, or respond to other people's audio posts, by calling our toll-free number (1-888-883-8045).
You can listen to what other people are saying by clicking on the gray title bars inside the widgets located on the "Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences" homepage, the HealthyPlace homepage, and the HealthyPlace Support Network homepage.
If you have any questions, write us at: info AT healthyplace.com
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Bipolar Hypomania: How to Avoid Its Tempting Lure (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Why Can’t You Get Past Your Past? (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- The Hopelessness of Bad Bipolar Days (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Why Talk Therapy Cannot Heal PTSD (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Eating Disorders and Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Addiction Recovery Programs: One Step Forward, 12 Steps Back (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Why is Recovering From Mental Illness So Difficult? (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Friendship and Mental Illness: Belonging to 'Club Meds' (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- Conversations: 6 Mental Illness Advocacy Tips (Life with Bob Blog)
- “Forgive Me Please?” – Mending Hurt Relationships (The Life: LGBT Mental Health and Relationships Blog)
- Ways to Self-Soothe During an Emotional Crisis (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Revisiting Abuse And Healing From It (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2013 (Surviving ED Blog)
- The Oddies: A Celebration Of Mental Illness Achievement (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Hitting Bottom in Addiction (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Impromptu ADHD Medication Holiday (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- Healthy Alternatives to Self-Injury (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Depression Can Be A Mental Workout (Coping with Depression Blog)
- Schizophrenia Poetry Series (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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Standing Up for Mental Health
Like A Breath of Fresh Air
Don't tolerate mental health stigma in your life. Stand Up for Yourself. Stand Up for Mental Health. Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Latest Mental Health News
These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:
- How Office Become Complaint Departments
- Why We Love Beautiful Things
- Just My Imagination ... Running Away With Me
- Your Brain At Work: Insights on NeuroLeadership
- And the Oscar Goes To: Celebrating Movies—The Big-screen Guides to Human Behavior
- Study Findings Reveal Factors Underlying Suicides In The Army National Guard
- Increased Risk Of Domestic Violence, Resulting Mental Health Problems For Victims With Disabilities
- Victims Of Bullying At Increased Risk Of Anxiety Disorders And Depression Later On
- Depression Links PTSD to Life Quality in Bipolar Disorder
That's it for now. If you know of anyone who can benefit from this newsletter or the HealthyPlace.com site, I hope you'll pass this onto them. You can also share the newsletter on any social network (like facebook, stumbleupon, or digg) you belong to by clicking the links below. For updates throughout the week:
APA Reference
Staff, H.
(2013, February 28). Eating Disorder Awareness, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 5 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/eating-disorder-awareness
