A resurgence of thin-biased, toxic norms is fueling a new wave of body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and a rising global prevalence of eating disorders. Eating…
Anorexia nervosa is a complex eating disorder characterized by severe food restriction, leading to a dangerously low body weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa often experience…
Family-Based Treatment is often viewed as the gold standard in the treatment of eating disorders. This evidence-based treatment has a 40-50% success rate. But it’s…
Girl, Interrupted, based on the memoir by Susanna Kaysen, is a powerful film about mental illness and being a young woman in a world that…
Hood Feminism, written by Mikki Kendall, is a powerful collection of essays that draws from her lived experience as a Black woman growing up in…
In her TEDx talk Starving for the Good, Elisabeth Huh, a third-year student at the University of Chicago, shares her harrowing yet inspiring journey with…
In December 2019, I first stumbled across BlackPink and ITZY, two K-pop groups that would quickly become my favourites. I had just come out of…
The hospitalization rates for young men with eating disorders have increased by an astonishing 416% from 2000 to 2019. Despite this dramatic increase, eating disorders…
In this episode, Trauma Report writer Vanessa DiPasquale speaks with Caitlin Johnson, a functional medicine dietitian, who helps women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)…
Eating disorders have the highest overall death rate of any mental illness. Around one million Canadians are currently diagnosed with an eating disorder. This includes…
Eating disorders are well known and widely talked about in schools and workplaces. It can be hard to understand how people transition from one eating…
Demi Lovato recently released a mini docu-series on YouTube called “Dancing with the Devil”. This four-episode documentary dives deep into Lovato’s recovery and the events leading…
Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a persistent preoccupation with the ‘quality’ of food, resulting in severely restricted eating and a strong need…
The poem “Mental Illness: A Poem From Its Point of View” is written by Janene Jordan who is an avid writer for The Mighty. This…
“Empty” is an award winning short film about a woman, Kiera, living with an eating disorder and her battle with the hypercritical voices in her…
“If you develop an eating disorder when you are already thin to begin with, you go to the hospital. If you develop an eating disorder when…
As profiled by the media during the Summer 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, doping is a problem that continues to plague sporting…
University student Catherine Pawley describes her struggle with overcoming Anorexia Nervosa in this compelling TEDX Talk. She opens up about the challenges she faced, her…
Former model Nikki Dubose has graced the covers of fashion magazines from Maxim to Vogue to Vanity Fair. She’s modeled in Barcelona, Paris, London, and…
“What’s eating you alive, might help you to survive” The Ted Leo and the Pharmacists song “Me and Mia” describes what it’s like to live…
