Misconceptions
True or False: This gender does not have eating disorders.
What are males?
Which gender has twice the prevalence of binge eating disorder than the other.
What is female?
Many believe this to be largely because cis males are highly unlikely to report having an eating disorder and more likely to be diagnosed as medically underweight instead.
This eating disorder is sometimes characterized by abnormally low body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of body image.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
DO or Don't:
CO and Cls should give up hope on "Getting Better" when experiencing an Eating Disorder.
What is Don't?
Give up hope. Sustained and permanent recovery from an eating disorder is possible. The road to being fully recovered is not easy, but the presence of loving supporters is essential to progress on that journey.
This is what NEDA stands for.
What is the abbreviation for National Eating Disorders Association
A popular misconception is that this group of individuals gain and lose weight for their sport, but they never develop eating disorders.
What is a wrestler?
This is the percentage of both the U.S. and worldwide populations who are affected by eating disorders.
What is 10%
In this eating disorder, people eat things that are not food.
What is pica?
DO or Don't
CO should get their own support when their loved ones are experiencing an eating disorder.
What is Do?
Get your own support. This can be from many sources such as a support group, a therapist, a friend, or a member of clergy. Some treatment facilities offer support groups just for loved ones of their clients for this reason. It is important to recognize that getting your own support can help the person you love who is suffering from an eating disorder. Much like the way that on an airplane, you’re instructed to put your own air mask on before helping others, you must take care of yourself before you can support someone else.
These have the highest risk of death of any mental illness.
What are eating disorders?
There is a misconception in which purging only involves self-induced vomiting. What is another method individuals use during purging?
What is laxatives?
This eating disorder has a median age of onset of 21 years old.
What is binge eating disorder?
Most people with eating disorders don't seek this out.....
What is treatment?
DO or Don't:
You should talk about bodies of the individual or others in a positive and/or negative light. This could be anybody including people on tv or in magazines.
What is Don’t?
Don't talk about or evaluate your body or other people’s bodies in front of someone in recovery. This goes for compliments as well as criticisms. For example, noting that a celebrity looks great because she has lost weight can send a message that what you value about others is their appearance. Nor should you talk about dieting or weight in front of someone in recovery either. These messages are subtle but insidious, and it takes practice to become aware of them.
This race has a higher lifelong prevalence for eating disorders.
What is white adults?
* BIPOC refers to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
According to a study, aside from Anorexia, which eating disorder was found to have a significantly high mortality rate?
What is bulimia nervosa?
This is the percentage of adults with eating disorders that also have Autism.
What is 30%?
People with this eating disorder have episodes where they consume large qualities of food and do not use compensatory behaviors to get rid of the food.
What is Binge-eating disorder?
Do or Don't:
You should make accommodations for the "eating disorder self" in daily life activities. An example of this could be not going out to dinner as a family because it makes a person in the family uncomfortable.
What is DON'T?
DON'T make changes in your own life to accommodate the eating disorder. At Monte Nido (eating disorder clinic), they talk about a person’s Healthy Self and an Eating Disordered Self. For example, a client once expressed her family would stay home and watch TV with her instead of going out to eat at a restaurant as restaurants made her (Eating Disordered Self) uncomfortable. While this seems like a supportive gesture, the family allowed her Eating Disordered Self to call the shots. This enabled her to keep using disordered behaviors with no natural consequences.
This is a direct result of one death every 52 minute, totaling 10,200 deaths per year.
What are eating disorders?
True or false:
It is said that if you have an eating disorder, it is unlikely you have another mental health diagnosis.
What is False?
Individuals often have this diagnosis paired with a variety of mental health diagnoses like anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, SU, and Autism, etc.
Out of 10 people with an eating disorder, this is the number that will seek treatment.
What is 1?
Genetics/biology, environmental influences, peer pressure, mental health, stress, trauma, and cultural expectations might play this role in eating disorders.
What are contributing factors?
Do or Don't:
CO should ask to be a part of their loved one's treatment for eating disorders.
What is DO? BUT it Depends on a myriad of factors. In general support systems are ESSENTIAL to recovery with EDs.
Ask to be involved in your loved one’s treatment. One of the most important components of eating disorder recovery is developing a support network of people who understand how to help. Many people with eating disorders use it as a way to cope with difficult emotions, thoughts, or events. Using food to exercise control over their situation is a strategy that may seem helpful at first but soon turns into a real problem. To move away from the disorder, the person must begin to rely on friends and family for emotional support instead of relying on their eating disorder. This is what we often call “putting the eating disorder out of a job.”
Many people who live with eating disorders feel high levels of shame and experience stigma from the outside world. Joining with your loved one and engaging in therapy to the degree in which they are comfortable sends a message of empathy, acceptance, and love that helps them move past those feelings of shame.
This is the percentage of people diagnosed with eating disorders that are between the ages 12 and 25.
What is 95%?