Instagram Follows Tumblr, Pinterest; Banning Content That Encourages Self Mutilation, Eating Disorders, Or Suicide

Taken from cnet  which is located   HERE. Instagram, the popular online photo-sharing service that was recently bought by Facebook for $1 billion, is banning images and accounts that condone “self-harm” behavior such as eating disorders, cutting oneself, or committing suicide. In a blog post Friday, the company said the following: Going forward, we won’t allow [...]

Eating Disorders In African Americans

Taken from  Psychology Today  which is located   HERE. Although both Black and White women and men suffer from eating disorders, there are important differences in the prevalence and form of the disorders.  Eating disorders include anorexia nervosa (anorexia), bulimia nervosa (bulimia), and binge eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are both firmly entrenched in [...]

Some Day Melissa: A Mother’s Loss, A Daughter’s Story, Melissa Arvin’s Tragic Death From Bulimia At Age 19

I originally ran this article about a year and a half ago.  Not all stories have happy endings. Read about Melissa here and when you follow the link in the article you can purchase a copy of the documentary made about her life.  A clip is available to view at the end of the article.  [...]

It Takes A Team To Fight Anorexia

Taken from  daily RX   which is located   HERE.   Anorexia study provides evidence for a higher calorie initial treatment Weight gain and anorexia naturally find their conflicts, and a current study challenges the effectiveness of current methods. A study by researchers at University of California in San Francisco provides evidence that eating disorder patients fail [...]

Tracey Gold To Host “Starving Secrets”, A Show Addressing Anorexia, Beginning December 2nd on Lifetime Television

Taken from PopStar  which is located   HERE. Actress Tracey Gold has had her own share of growing pains, but now she’s helping others cope with their own. The actress, best known for her role as Carol Seaver on the 1980′s sit-com Growing Pains, has created a new reality show for Lifetime called “Starving Secrets.”  The [...]

Eating Disorders Are A Guy Thing Too

Taken from  the Boston Globe  which is located   HERE. Christopher R. Skarinka had heard of eating disorders, of course. Every college student had by the early 2000s, when Skarinka started school. But nearly every college kid, like most everyone else, also thought of eating disorders as a female problem. Not a problem for a buff, [...]

Eating Disorders And The Executive Woman

    Taken from  Forbes   which is located     HERE. For a growing number of professional women, food issues take center stage mid-life. When coworkers would pop into Alison’s office at lunchtime to ask if she wanted take-out, the petite advertising executive would look up from the piles of papers on her desk and say sure, [...]

California Courts Order Insurers To Cover Anorexia Recovery

Taken from   blisstree  which is located    HERE.   Jeanene Harlick, 37, was at 65% her ideal body weight and needed a feeding tube, but her insurance company wouldn’t cover inpatient care at an eating disorder facility. Harlick lives in California, which has one of the nation’s strongest mental health parity laws—laws that say insurance companies [...]

15 Alarming Facts About Eating Disorders

Despite the bounty of information at its disposal, mainstream society still doesn’t exactly understand mental illness… Taken from online universities which is located   HERE, Eating disorders especially end up on the receiving end of frequent stereotyping and misunderstanding — a very dangerous phenomenon, considering how they can quickly turn fatal when left unchecked. College students [...]

Self Harm- Choosing Life

Taken from Mind and Soul which is located    HERE. Selfharm.co.uk  is located   HERE. Rachel Welch, 05/08/2011 I was a Christian. I was involved with a Church, my parents were Christians and I had a very happy home life. By the age of 15 I was chronically bulimic. It had started as anorexia and quickly propelled [...]