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Myth Buster: The Truth About Eating Disorders

Research indicates that there are generally low levels of mental health literacy in the community. General beliefs and misunderstandings about mental health affect community responses to eating disorders. Understanding the facts about eating disorders can reduce stigma, increase awareness and consequently improve the prevention, early identification and help-seeking among sufferers. The National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) have identified five common misconceptions about [...]

By Shridevi|2016-05-22T19:22:01+10:00May 22nd, 2016|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: anorexia, binge eating, body image, bulimia, eating disorders, psychology|0 Comments

Eating Disorders: The Role Of Family And Friends

Family and friends play a crucial role in the care, support and recovery of someone with an eating disorder. The effects of an eating disorder are often felt not only by the person experiencing it, but also their family and support network. Carers may face considerable personal strain through feelings of confusion, distress, guilt, exhaustion and anxiety. For this reason, it is important that carers look after their own wellbeing whilst [...]

By Shridevi|2016-04-01T04:54:28+11:00April 1st, 2016|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: carers, diet, eating disorders, education, Family, Healthy eating, lifestyle, positive thinking, tips|0 Comments

The Neuroscience of Anorexia Reveals Why It’s So Hard to Treat

gettyimages Most of the anorexia patients Dr. Joanna Steinglass sees in the inpatient eating-disorders unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute have been to treatment before. While in the hospital or a residential treatment center, they generally gained weight and began to eat a wider variety of foods. But after they left, [...]

By Imogen|2015-11-01T21:11:09+11:00November 1st, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: anorexia, body image, Brain, diets, eating disorders, exercise, neuroscience, weight|0 Comments

‘Hyper-parenting’ Is Making Kids Fall Apart

'Slow coach' Carl Honore (third from left) with Dianne and Glen's family on Frantic Family Rescue. Photo: Guss Mallmann Australian children are under too much pressure, and most of that is coming from their parents, who are themselves the victims of social pressure to create "the perfect family". The Canadian sociologist Carl Honore [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-08-17T14:12:34+10:00August 16th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: children, eating disorders, Hyper-Parenting, Mental Health, parenting, psychology, self harming, societal pressure|0 Comments

Eating Disorders: Promoting Health and Wellbeing in your School

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that are associated with significant physical complications. Eating disorders not only involve considerable psychological impairment and distress, but they are also associated with major wide-ranging and serious medical complications, which can affect every major organ in the body. Eating disorders occur in both men and women, young and old, [...]

By Shridevi|2015-07-20T08:00:25+10:00July 20th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: diet, eating disorders, food, mental illnesses, physical health, schools, women|0 Comments

Eating Disorders and Online Resources for Young People

Eating disorders have a significant and underestimated impact on Australian society. They occur in individuals of any gender, age, cultural or socioeconomic background. While estimates of the incidence of eating disorders vary between countries and studies, there is consensus that eating disorders, disordered eating and body image issues affect approximately 9% of the population and [...]

By Shridevi|2015-05-18T09:27:19+10:00May 18th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: Australian society, body image, diet, eating disorders, lifestyle, Online Resources, young people|0 Comments

Removing ‘Fat-talk’ and Body Shaming on Facebook: Where to Next?

How does it make you feel when someone close to you tells you they feel fat? As one of a group of women from around the world who recently joined with Endangered Bodies to ask Facebook to remove the body shaming ‘I feel fat’ and ‘I feel ugly’ status options and emoticons from all versions [...]

By Shridevi|2019-04-02T09:35:00+11:00April 2nd, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: body image, eating disorders, facebook, fat, healthy bodies, ugly, weight, young people|0 Comments

Pro-Anorexia, Bulimia Communities Thriving Online

Photos of emaciated women proudly displaying their protruding hips and ribs, as well as thinspirational quotes "fat-shaming" those who dare to eat, continue to thrive on social media, despite the best attempts by sites like Instagram to temper the reach of the pro-eating disorder community. Some girls gain thousands of followers posting pictures of "thigh gaps" [...]

By Shridevi|2015-02-28T15:27:42+11:00February 28th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: bulimia, eating disorders, Health & Physical Education, online, physical health, Pro-Anorexia, psychology|0 Comments

What pop culture gets wrong about eating disorders

It’s true that bulimia happens among ballet dancers and beauty queens, and other people whose bodies are their livelihoods. But the reality of bulimia and other eating disorders that involve purging – through vomiting, overexercise, or laxative abuse – is that many people suffering from them don’t look like ballerinas or pageant contestants. Many women [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2014-05-04T20:03:43+10:00May 4th, 2014|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: ballet dancers, beauty queens, bulimia, eating disorders, laxative abuse, overexercise, pop culture, purging, stomach acid, vomiting, women|0 Comments

The story behind Israel’s Photoshop Law

The legislation focuses on two elements of the fashion industry that have long drawn criticism for their effects on women and, especially, girls: ultra thin models and the use of Photoshop to make women appear impossibly thin in advertisements. The measure has been controversial within Israel for raising the question of where free speech bumps [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-07-28T14:02:58+10:00July 28th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: advertisements, anorexia, eating disorders, fashion industry, free speech, Israel, photoshop, psychological wellbeing, Women's health|1 Comment