May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and if there’s a single mental disorder I want to bring more awareness to it is eating disorders. Yep. You read that correctly. Eating disorders are mental disorders with physical side effects. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that eating disorders have the HIGHEST mortality rate of any […]
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Almost every year, I say, “Spreading eating disorder awareness should be a year-long endeavor, not just one week.” While that still remains true, I’m going to use National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Week to shout from the rooftops that there NEEDS to be more eating disorder research in marginalized identities. Because eating disorders do not
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