Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that can have severe consequences for physical and mental health. They affect people of all backgrounds and include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorders. The earlier someone seeks treatment, the better the chances of recovery. Eating disorders should not be taken lightly as they can become life threatening conditions if not properly treated.

2. Eating disorders are real,
WHAT IS AN EATING
DISORDER?
complex, and devastating
conditions that can have serious
consequences for health,
productivity, and
relationships. Eating disorders
do not discriminate.
They are not a choice, fad or
phase. Eating disorders are a
serious, potentially lifethreatening conditions that affect
a person‟s emotional & physical
health. The earlier a person with
an eating disorder seeks
treatment, the greater the
likelihood of physical and
emotional recovery.
NEDA
National Eating Disorder Association

3. BULIMIA NERVOSA
A continuous cycle were a person may binge on food, followed by
compensatory behaviors to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.
Compensating Behaviors:
-Laxatives
-Exercising (Exercise Bulimia)
- Self-induced vomiting (reactive)
Signs: (Not Limited To)
- Food disappearing
- Hiding food/vomit
- Physical symptoms
- Frequent trips to bathroom
- May or may not be physically obvious

4. ANOREXIA NERVOUSA
-
Restricting food intake, cutting out
certain food groups.
-
Intense fear of weight gain
- May or may not use binge eating
and/or “compensating” behaviors.
-
Hiding under clothes
-
Pretending to eat to reassure others
-
Avoiding going out to eat with
friends
-
Individuals with anorexia between
ages 15-24 are 12 times more likely
to die from the illness than all other
causes of death

5. BINGE EATING DISORDER
- May not eat in front of others because
being ashamed about how others judge
when they eat, leading to starve and then
eat excessive amounts of food in secret
and alone
- May go through cycles of dieting for
period (weeks or months) at a time
followed by binging for (weeks or
months) ect.
- Unable to control yourself so don‟t eat in
front of others then binge when no one I
around.
- A feeling of being out of control during
binge behavior and in control during
starvation period
- May eat until the individual is beyond
full to the point of discomfort

6. PROGRESS WITH „B.E.D‟

7. EATING DISORDERS IN MEN
No ethnic, gender or socioeconomic
group is immune to the dangers of this
disease.
In regards to gender, 1 in 10 cases of these
disorders involve males.
Doctors are reportedly less likely to make a
diagnosis of eating disorders in males than
females.
A study of 135 males hospitalized with an eating
disorder noted that the males with bulimia felt
ashamed of having a stereotypically “female”
disorder, which might explain their delay in
seeking treatment.
Particularly, for the disorder anorexia, up to one in
four children referred to an eating disorders
professional is a boy.
Clearly eating disorders amongst
males is a cause for concern.

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LKPOoLgaPQ

9. THE VOICE INSIDE MY “ED”
-This voice, is a person‟s inner bully
-Demeaning, scolding, nagging, dishonest,
hateful, controlling. Simply put, you do
not want this person in your life.
You wouldn‟t want to spend five
minutes with it.
-Yet, for people with eating disorders, the
voice is 24 hours a day (even in
dreams).
-May seem like a best friend/ only friend
-“She won‟t let me.” “She”-being the voice
the person‟s head
“Everything will be
better when your thin…
you will have more fun
if your thin. You will be
happier and more people
will like you”

10. WHAT IS GOING ON?
Skinny Gossip Columns actually provides ”starving tips of the day“
This starving tip of the day came from SkinnyGossip reader Katy:
This is particularly good if you are fasting. Buy about 3-4 flavoured lip
balms, which you can apply when your craving something sweet and
guess what? No calories! I’ve managed to get a chocolate one,
chocolate mint one and a peanut butter one! They work wonders for me.
http://www.myproana.com/
http://www.skinnygossip.com/category/thinspo
>i wish i could tear all the fat
and skin off me/ Be free(?)<

11. In the developed world 20%
of people diagnosed with an
eating disorder will die. That
is 1/5.
There has been a rise in
incidence of anorexia in
young women 15-19 in each
decade since 1930
Bulimia in 10-39 yr. old
women TRIPLED
between1988-1993
Research dollars spent on:
Alzheimer’s Disease averaged $88 per diagnosed person
Schizophrenia the amount was $81 per diagnosed funding
Despite the prevalence, Eating Disorders receive inadequate person
Autism $44 per diagnosed person
Illness Disorders the average amount of research dollars per
Prevalence
NIH Research
Eating
Funds (2011)
affected individual was just $0.93.million
Alzheimer’s Disease
5.1
$450,000,000
(National Institutes of Health,3.6 million
2011)
Autism
$160,000,000
YET, eating disorders are the 3.4 million cause of $276,000,000
LEADING
death among
Schizophrenia
Eating disorders disorders (mental disorders).
30 million
$28,000,000
ALL psychiatric

12. WHAT TO SAY AND WHAT NOT TO SAY…
-
Basically anything referring to looks,
body or food
It’s so good
“Wow, you
“You look so
to see you
look great”
healthy!”
so happy!

13. (Things to be careful of, “It makes me want to throw up”.
“I could never be anorexic I love food way too much”)

14. RECOVERY PROCESS
- Abstinence: learning how to incorporate food(drug) into life and not
abuse.
-
Recovery from trauma
Learning how to eat again.
May have to redevelop parts of body or learn to cope with permanent
damage.
- Reactive purging
- Unable to have bowl movement
- No hunger que
- Diabetes
- Osteoporosis
- Stomach pain while eating

15. BE THE
There is nothing
EXAMPLE
egotistical, selfish or
OF
shameful about loving
yourself and expressing
CHANGE
that love