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Here you will find articles discussing the various ways culture can affect both the development of an eating disorder and eating disorder recovery.
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Links to various articles in the news and other websites and blogs representing cultural voices will be posted here along with commentary.
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For the past two nights I've been watching Michael Jackson videos on youtube. Here are a few.
I've always loved his music and his distinctive and electrifying dance moves. But I had never watched his career unfold chronologically before my eyes from first appearance as a dynamic little boy in the Jackson Five to the creative genius behind Thriller and beyond. His "We are the world" raised millions for starving children in Africa.
Yet at a low Michael was 91 pounds on a five 5'11" frame.
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Carrie Arnold wrote a warm and beautiful blog post about living through and beyond eating disorders. She calls for and hopes for essays about eating disorder treatment that are filled with hope. She also implies that it’s hard to hold on to hope when the news spreads gloom and doom stories about eating disorders.
Challenges to effective recovery treatment
Carrie raises the two great challenges that face the person who needs effective treatment and the clinician who offers it.
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| A not so simple answer: compassion
I wonder, and ask myself and you and anyone who will listen, why is compassion so difficult to achieve in this or any culture? We all need it, and the benefits of sharing it are huge. Or better yet, we can skip the why question and get to the more practical one: how can we develop compassion?
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Wkyc.com out of Cleveland Ohio is running the tragic story of a young girl's death: Focus: Warning Signs of Bulimia.
No awareness of risk - Mary's story is all the more tragic because it seems that neither she nor the people in her life had genuine information about the dangers connected with weight gain, weight loss and eating disorders. The focus today is too often on appearance and not about the real needs of a human body or the risks associated with eating disorders and types of weight loss programs.
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