Helping Teens with Eating Disorders: Balancing Treatment and Academic Success

• By: Courtney Anderson, MA, LPC EDCare
• April 16th, 2025
• academic support, accommodations, adolescents, eating disorders, education, family therapy, mental health, recovery, resilience, Spring 2025 Issue
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For adolescents struggling with eating disorders, the pursuit of recovery often comes at a difficult cost: disruption to their education. The rigid structure of traditional schooling rarely accommodates the complex needs of students undergoing treatment, forcing many families to make an impossible...

Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

• By: | The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• February 28th, 2024
• anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, clinical trials, eating disorders, NIMH research
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There is a commonly held misconception that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Preoccupation with food, body weight,...

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...