For this week's Sunday Smörgåsbord, ED Bites recommended "Becoming 'Whole' Again: A Qualitative Study of Women's Views of Recovering From Anorexia Nervosa." A person on my flist sent me the full text as a PDF: download here.There are NO triggering numbers used in the article. Behaviors are only mentioned by type ("restricting," "b/p"). Authors Jana ( Read more... )

I'm not sure if this is allowed here, but I am writing a screenplay about a girl with an eating disorder (Bulimia specifically). I was hoping to get some insight for the scenes. If anyone would be willing to share a story of a binge/purge session, other behaviours you had that you associate with the disease, character traits you have, how your ( Read more... )

Do you find yourself, deliberately or subconsciously, undermining your own efforts by sabotaging your eating patterns? Whether that means within your disorder; eg. binging because you don't feel like you "deserve" thinness, or within recovery; going back to restrictive/compensatory behaviors because you don't feel that you "deserve" to be well just ( Read more... )

Okay, so I double checked the rules and hope this is okay... I have tried asking my doctor before but found them a little evasive ( Read more... )

A few years back, when I was anorexic, I posted here about my 8-year-old niece who I suspected was developing abnormal concerns and habits around eating. (would be so lovely if anyone recalls this, although of course it was a while ago ( Read more... )

Isabelle Caro dies

French model Isabelle Caro, whose shocking billboard ad warned of the dangers of anorexia, has died at age 28. Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, Isabelle Caro's acting teacher, said that Caro had been ill for a long time. The billboard, shot by Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, is pictured here ( Read more... )

( Long Post / Mainly Positive )

Happy Xmas, ed_ucate!
I've read a few anecdotal reports that people with Anorexia Nervosa tend to have small handwriting and I've just come across a case study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders about a girl with both Micrographia (small handwriting) and Hypophonia (low volume speech) which seemed to be exascerbated when her AN got ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever posted here but I have a medical question (sort of) and I haven't been able to find anything ( Read more... )

( Sorry this got long. )