Eating disorders are traditionally misunderstood when it comes to males, with societal perceptions often overlooking or downplaying their prevalence and impact. This blog explores eating disorders in male-identifying individuals.
Purging is defined broadly as a series of actions taken with the intention of ridding the body of any food or liquid. The underlying factors that contribute to purging are complex and related to emotional distress, stress, anxiety and other negative emotions. As a carer and the most ideal methods of treatment, the most valuable role that you can play is one of support, non judgement and acceptance of where your loved one is at, whilst educating yourself about the illness and seeking to gain skills and strategies for you and your loved one.
Collaboration secures important changes to school curriculum to prevent eating disorders When classroom content triggered an eating disorder relapse for Kylie Burton’s daughter, the EDFA
Lived-Experience Advice from our Forum As part of our strive Carer Support Program, we offer a private, daily support forum on Facebook – a 24/7
Recovery from eating disorders – what are the signs? We wish that we could tell you that recovery from eating disorders is a linear process.
EDFA, along with our state partners*, is very proud to present the next issue of our webinar series on TBT-S. This webinar’s topic is: “Using
Flynn’s Sibling Story My sister Tahlia developed anorexia at 16. We noticed something was wrong on a family holiday to Ireland…and when we got home
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