Why Eating Disorders Awareness Week Is Important
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Importance of Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Are You Putting Too Much Stress on Your Kids?
- Latest Mental Health News
Importance of Eating Disorders Awareness Week
It's Eating Disorders Awareness Week and boy, do we need it. There are still so many myths and misconceptions about eating disorders. For instance, how about the myth that only young girls get eating disorders or eating disorders are the direct result of an abusive or highly dysfunctional home life. Eating disorder statistics and research into the causes of eating disorders paint a completely different picture. The fact is that while young women are the primary group to develop anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, eating disorders don't discriminate and boys, along with adult men and women, are targets too.
There's another misconception out there that I think is important to address. You may have heard that once you develop an eating disorder, you never really recover; that having an eating disorder is a lifelong illness. The truth is many people with anorexia and bulimia do recover. Watch this video interview we did: Fully Recovered From Anorexia and Bulimia. Of course, there are different degrees of eating disorder recovery, but the point is after eating disorder treatment, there are many who are living a better quality of life. Our eating disorder blogger, Patricia Lemoine, is a prime example of that. (Recovering From Bulimia vs Recovered From Bulimia)
The great thing about Eating Disorders Awareness Week is we, as a community, have an opportunity to enlighten others as well as ourselves about the ins-and-outs of eating disorders. At HealthyPlace, we hope you'll take advantage of that.
Related Eating Disorder Articles
- HealthyPlace Eating Disorders Information
- Surviving ED Blog
- Online Eating Disorder Test
- Eating Disorder Help: Where to Get Help for Eating Disorders?
- Parenting Kids with Eating Disorders
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: Do you have an eating disorder plus another mental health condition, like depression, anxiety, an addiction? If so, how does one affect the other? 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
Over 440 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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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:
- Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents: Is Love Enough?
- Overcoming Negative Self Talk with a Writing Exercise
- Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder: Symptoms, Treatment, Effects
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.
- Laughter . . . the Unsung Hero for Alleviating Depression (Coping with Depression Blog)
- Move Forward: A Setback Isn’t Defeat; Anxiety Didn’t Win (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Maintaining Self-Esteem When ‘Bipolar’ is an Insult (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- What Are the Best Treatments for Depression? (Mental Health Treatment Circle Blog)
- Mental Health Stigma: Airing our “Dirty Laundry” (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Psychotherapy, Religion, and Brain Effects of Trauma (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- 4 Habits That Hurt Your Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- The Military and Mental Health Stigma (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Combat PTSD (Understanding Combat PTSD)
- Abusive Relationships: Devil You Know vs. The Devil You Don’t (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Opening Up to Loved Ones About Self-Harm: Facing Those Fears (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Helping Me Understand My Son with Schizophrenia¡ (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- Putting the “Behavioral” in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Don’t Underestimate Your Child with a Mental Illness (Life with Bob Blog)
- When People with Mental Illness Become Prey (More Than Borderline Blog)
- Giving Back in Eating Disorder Recovery and Your Eating Disorder Is A Real Illness (Surviving ED Blog)
- Brand Protection Key Element Of Mentally Ill Merchandising (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Adult ADHD and Vacations (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- Self-Care – Make It #1 on Your ‘To Do’ List (Living A Blissful Life Blog)
- The Time Has Come to Say Goodbye (Bipolar Vida Blog)
- Human Rights For Those With Schizophrenia (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
- Finding LGBT Friendly Mental Health Care for the Uninsured (The Life: LGBT Mental Health and Relationships 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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Are You Putting Too Much Stress on Your Kids?
Some parents put a lot of stress on their kids to perform. The Parent Coach, Dr. Steven Richfield, has some ideas on how to handle this pressure to help kids that are anxious and stressed out.
Latest Mental Health News
These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:
- Movie Date Night Can Double as Therapy
- In Texting Era, Crisis Hotlines Put Help at Youths’ Fingertips
- Significant Increase Reported In Overdoses Involving Heroin In Kentucky
- Workplace Is Key To Suicide Prevention, Says SANE Australia
- Psychoeducation Reduces Internalised Stigmatisation In Bipolar Patients
- Substance Abuse Worsens Course Of First-Episode Psychosis
- Factors Predicting Disengagement From Psychosis Early Intervention Identified
- Comorbid OCD And Bipolar Disorder Should Be Treated As Mood Disorder
- Psychotherapies Have Specific Effects On Psychosis Symptoms
- Delusions: Faulty 'Reality Testing' To Blame, Study Suggests
- Cortical Thickness Changes May Contribute To Early Schizophrenia
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.
(2014, February 26). Why Eating Disorders Awareness Week Is Important, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, November 2 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/why-eating-disorders-awareness-week-is-important
