Despite being counted as one of the most common types of mental illness around the world, there’s still a lack of awareness about eating disorders: what they actually are, who can have them, and how we should talk about them.
Eating disorders are still treated as a punchline to jokes about models. They’re still viewed as something only young women have. And we still fail to talk about anorexia, bulimia, and other patterns of disordered eating in a sensitive way.
It can be difficult. Especially when you… Read the full story