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Where Barbie Meets K-Pop: The Rise in Eating Disorders in Asia

21 May , 2021 - Blog, Eating Disorder, Mental Health

Body Image and Eating Disorders in Children and Teenagers From East to West, children and teenagers constantly gather information from people, things and events in their environment. They use this information to make judgments and form opinions about themselves, others and the world around them. Can exposure to unrealistic expectations and perfectionism affect the self-confidence […]

How New Research Into Predicting Eating Disorders Could Provide Opportunities For Earlier Intervention

12 Apr , 2021 - Blog, Eating Disorder, Mental Health, News

What Are Eating Disorders? An eating disorder causes an individual to interact with food in an unhealthy way: eating excessive amounts in an uncontrolled manner, limiting food intake or getting rid of food through purging, fasting, laxative intake or over-exercising. It is also possible for a combination of these behaviours to occur together. Individuals who have an […]

‘I feel fat’. What Does ‘Feeling Fat’ Really Mean?

27 Jan , 2021 - Behavioral Health, Blog, Eating Disorder, Mental Health

Young People, Body Image and Eating Disorders Feeling fat. Is this an experience that you have had recently or that you have heard your partner, daughter, son or colleagues share? It is a relatively common expression and appears to transcend cultures and languages. There is an equivalent expression in most languages. While those who identify […]

Eating Disorders: From the Plate to the Brain and Everything In Between

29 Oct , 2020 - Behavioral Health, Eating Disorder

Discovering how Early Intervention and Treatment for Teenagers and Young Adults can save a life. Parents often find it difficult to describe ‘when and where’ they first noticed signs that their child was struggling with the early signs of an eating disorder. For many parents, periods of increasingly ‘picky eating’ and changes in style of […]

100% or Failure – How striving for Academic Perfection can be linked-to Eating Disorders in Teenagers

30 Jun , 2020 - Blog, Boderline Personality Disorder, Eating Disorder

Mable* is 17. She explains to me how she measures herself by numbers. Her favourite numbers are 10 and 100. Ten represents the 10 out of ten that indicates a perfect score on a short test. One hundred represents the only acceptable mark in an exam. Anything that is not 10 or 100 equals failure. […]

Eating Disorder Stories

12 May , 2020 - Blog, Eating Disorder

“When I stopped using numbers to evaluate my self-worth, I started to see myself again”. We follow one young client through her Eating Disorder Recovery journey. “My relationship with numbers began a long time ago. It wasn’t being the times’ tables queen or knowing how to code that grabbed my attention.” Our teenagers and young […]

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Eating disoders

Where Barbie Meets K-Pop: The Rise in Eating Disorders in Asia

How New Research Into Predicting Eating Disorders Could Provide Opportunities For Earlier Intervention

‘I feel fat’. What Does ‘Feeling Fat’ Really Mean?

Eating Disorders: From the Plate to the Brain and Everything In Between

100% or Failure – How striving for Academic Perfection can be linked-to Eating Disorders in Teenagers

Eating Disorder Stories

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