Eating disorders are serious and potentially life threatening mental illnesses. They don’t discriminate and affect all ages, cultural and socioeconomic groups, as well as both genders.
Anorexia Nervosa
People suffering from anorexia cut down on their food intake drastically, which causes dramatic weight loss.
Bulimia Nervosa
Bulimia is characterised by binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviour to get rid of the calories.
OSFED or UFED
OSFED is Other Specified Feeding Eating Disorder (also known as UFED (Unspecified Feeding Eating Disorder).
ARFID
ARFID (Avoidance Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) is not simply ‘picky eating’. It is a very serious eating disorder.
Dealing with Eating Disorders Long Term
If a patient has an eating disorder for more than five years, it’s classified as severe and enduring.
FYI - Eating Disorder Early Identification Tool
Feed Your Instinct (FYI) is an interactive tool designed to help parents recognise the signs of eating disorders/body image problems in their children.
Become a member of EDFA for $25 per year (Australian Carers Only)
EDFA is a proud not for profit, volunteer run organisation.
We invite you to be part of a revolutionary peer support group making positive changes in the Eating Disorder space. Strength in numbers means we are able to affect change and have the collective voice of the carers recognised.
We provide opportunities to connect with other parents and carers who share your experiences… helping you to feel less alone and isolated.
Yearly membership is just $25.
Membership gives access to:
– Access to a range of resources in our Member Only section of the website including Educational Recordings, Member Recommended Clinicians and Services, and more.
– monthly state-based strive carer support groups
– twice monthly education sessions
– monthly sibling support group
– quarterly strive support groups for carers of people with ARFID, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, as well as a group for male carers
– discounts to eating disorder events and conferences.
– daily online support through our strive Facebook page and the opportunity to connect, share, learn and ask questions is another benefit of being part of our EDFA community.
Your membership helps EDFA with ongoing costs of running a not-for-profit organisation, and importantly, shows Government that families value, need and believe in this type of lived-experience support. Strength in numbers helps EDFA lobby as the collective voice of carers for better services, treatments, access to expert clinicians and specialised ED units, to help our loved ones in their recovery journey and to acknowledge the impact of an eating disorder diagnosis on the entire family unit
