Eating Disorders
We Asked Men About Their Eating Disorders
I knew that I couldn’t be the only one in my peer group who’s had trouble with food.
Eating Gives Me Anxiety and Not Eating Gives Me Anxiety
Lately, I feel that the way I've lived for years—in hyperconscious, hypervigilant awareness of everything I put in my mouth—no longer serves to quell my depression and anxiety. It actually exacerbates it.
How My Diabetes Gave Me An Eating Disorder
For Type 1 diabetics, restricting insulin is like a magic bullet for weight loss. But the consequences can be devastating and deadly.
The Teens Using Instagram Hashtags to Glorify Suicide
Ana, Annie, Bella, Deb, Mia, Perry, Sue and Sophie aren't real girls. They're abbreviations for mental health issues and eating disorders used by teenagers looking to band together through personal stories on Instagram.
The Mental Health Warriors of Instagram
The community serves as a place to help and support each other through whatever problems its members are dealing with, from dissociative identity disorder to eating disorders.
I Hired a Millennial Life Coach
I wanted to know why so many people in their 20s are entering the multibillion-dollar, nebulously defined life-coaching industry.
Meet the Swedish Director Of a New Film About Eating Disorders
'My Skinny Sister' explores what happens to a family when one member develops a devastating eating disorder.
Should Weed Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders?
Marijuana is used as a medicine for everything from anxiety to cancer – and some experts believe it could treat eating disorders, too.
Dirty Tricks and Party Drugs: What It’s Really Like to Live with Models
The life of a young model is probably less glamourous than you thought.
I Spent a Week Undercover in a Pro-Anorexia WhatsApp Group
The skeletal girls in it bowed before a mysterious leader known as "the goddess of emaciation".
How I Catfished a Paedophile Who Was Posing as a Pro-Anorexia Coach
Have pro-ana blogs become the new hunting ground for sexual predators? My experiences posing as a 15-year-old girl with a fetish for intense weight loss certainly suggest so.
Dadbod Isn't That Funny When You Are a Guy with an Eating Disorder
The stupid term does highlight male privilege, sure, but as a guy with an eating disorder, I don't want it.