Significance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Significance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- Eating Disorders are Common
- Show Support and Become Knowledgeable
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Latest Mental Health News
Significance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
It's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. At some time or another, everyone has felt insecure about his or her body. Whether it be whispers in the locker room or receiving an unkind gesture from a coworker, confidence is difficult to come by at any age. For those struggling with an eating disorder, finding that confidence can be a tougher battle to conquer. National Eating Disorders Awareness Week plays a crucial role in spreading awareness of this disease in hopes of putting a stop to the negative views many have when it comes to their body.
Eating Disorders are Common
Whether it be from bullying, stress or pressure from the media, eating disorders are much more common than many believe. In addition to anorexia and bulimia, binge eating disorder is also an issue among many men and women as well as pica and Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Show Support and Become Knowledgeable
Thousands of people have lost loved ones due to eating disorders. It is important to recognize the symptoms of an eating disorder and to be proactive in getting eating disorder treatment. Become knowledgeable about this mental health issue – for your sake and the sake of other family members and loved ones.
Articles Related to Eating Disorders and National Eating Disorder Week
- Why We Need Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- In-depth Eating Disorders Information
- Types of Eating Disorders
- How to Put Your Eating Disorder First
- Eating Disorder Help: Where to Get Help for Eating Disorders
- Surviving ED Blog
- Binge Eating Recovery Blog
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: In what way has your family been touched or affected by an eating disorder? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.
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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:
- Natural Depression Treatment: Herbal, Natural Remedies for Depression
- Marriage and Mental Illness: For Better or Worse?
- Is Anxiety Really About Having Control Issues?
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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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- How To Prepare for Alzheimer’s Disease (Mental Health Treatment Circle Blog)
- Surviving Winter and Depression and Using Metaphor to Describe the Pain of Depression (Coping with Depression Blog)
- Why Do We Eat to Relieve Anxiety? and Three Little-Known Facts About Anxiety (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Mixing Bipolar and Codeine (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- BDSM and Borderline (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Reasonable Expectations and Healthy Goals and Mental Illness and Good Self-Care is Vital to Mental Health Recovery (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- The Link Between PTSD and Eating Disorders (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Healthy Self-Esteem Regardless of Employment Situation and Why Rejection Isn’t Real and Shouldn’t Harm Your Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Parents With Mental Illness Deserve More Than Stigma (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- PTSD Rates in Veterans High, But Not in All Groups (Understanding Combat PTSD)
- Video: Binge Eating Disorder and “The Good Fat Girl” (Binge Eating Recovery Blog)
- The Effects of Verbal Abuse and How They Hurt Me (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Focusing on Fitness Can Help Prevent Self-Harm (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Depression: What to Say: I’m Sorry Things Are Hard for You (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Why Does Anxiety Disorder Make You So Tired? (Treating Anxiety Blog)
- Bipolar Depression in My Teen (Life with Bob)
- Using Safe Objects For Dissociation (Dissociative Living Blog)
- Why We Need Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Surviving ED Blog)
- Anorexia: A New Form of Control (Getting Through Tough Times Blog)
- How Gender Dysphoria Affects Depression (The Life: LGBT Mental Health Blog)
- Enabling Versus Helping an Addicted Loved One (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Schizoaffective Disorder and Spirituality and Homeless With Schizophrenia (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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Stand Up for Mental Health
Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign
But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.
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:
- Support For Sleeping In? Half Of Parents Favor Later School Start Times For Teens
- Study: 25 Percent Of Children Who Are Homeless Need Mental Health Services
- Gender And Personality Matter In How People Cope With Physical And Mental Illness
- A Photograph May Distort Or Even Push Out Our Actual Memory Of An Event, Studies Suggest
- Elementary Teachers' Depression Symptoms Related To Students' Learning
- Caring Youth-Parent Relations Can Be Vital To Preventing Adolescent Suicide Attempts
- Study: Identifying Mentally Ill 'Frequent Fliers' First Step To Reducing Police Contact
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APA Reference
Aline, J.
(2015, February 24). Significance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 21 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/significance-of-national-eating-disorders-awareness-week
