We Don’t Need More Youth Mental Health Crisis Narratives – We Need to Create Affirming Spaces for Youth to Talk About Their Bodies

• By: Sophie Szew Youth Mental Health Advocate and Writer Christina Borel, LCSW, LICSW Certified Body Trust® Provider and Clinical Social Worker
• July 29th, 2026
• affirming spaces, body image, body trust, GLP-1s, identity formation, neuroqueer, school health policy, Summer 2026 Issue, youth mental health
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These are not kids in crisis. This observation grew increasingly certain as the conversation lingered, and so did the feeling that the conversation would remain painfully unfinished. After we wrapped up our workshop titled Resisting (dis)order and Reclaiming Neuroqueer Body Trust, some of the...

Understanding Eating Disorders in Gay Males

• By: Rachel W. Bush, PhD New York Medical College
• October 1st, 2016
• body image, cultural pressures, eating disorders, gay men, LGBTQ+ community, mental health, stigma, treatment and interventions
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The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders estimate that men account for 1 million of the roughly 8 million Americans that suffer from eating disorders (McMurray, 2013). Within the gay community there is a hidden epidemic of eating disorders. Gay men are up to three times...