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Education

Our resources are provided by the National Eating Disorder Association to give information for those struggling with an eating disorder and to provide awareness, advocacy, support, and education to others.

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Eating Disorders & the Brain?                       

Those developing an eating disorder lack the brain’s natural ability to produce a balanced amount of chemical responses (neurotransmitters) that send the proper signals to the receptors (neurons) in the brain that control hunger, appetite, and digestion. Other related biological factors may include body metabolism and co-occurring mental illnesses. 

Co-occurring Health Conditions

Co-occurring Health Conditions

Biology   

Genetics, hormones, underactive or overactive neurotransmitter responses, and other chemicals in the brain play a significant role in developing an Eating Disorder.

Co-occurring Health Conditions

Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, OCD, Auto Immune Disorders, PTSD.

All eating disorders are defined as brain-based biological disorders that inhibit an individual’s ability to intake and process food consistently with good physical and emotional health.

What is an Eating Disorder? 

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Personal Characteristics
     & Relationship Issues                                   

Low self-esteem, poor self-image issues, substance usage, unhealthy personal relationships and influences, and different forms of abuse.

Culture &
            Social Influence               

Weight loss, diet fads, fitspo-obsessed media, unrealistic practices for achieving “body ideals,” self-worth based on appearance, limited mental health education, lack of role modeling of healthy relationships with food & body image, and lack of available care & resources.

What Causes an Eating Disorder?       

There is no single cause for Eating disorders. However, there are many contributing factors.

Stress & Life Changes

Major personal traumas, loss & grief, new unpredictable endeavors, stressful life changes, poor stress management, coping, self-care, and boundary-setting skills

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What an Eating Disorder is not!

About getting attention

A lifestyle 

Always visible

Glamorous

A phase

A result of the media, fashion, or Hollywood

About being attractive, pretty, or thin

Only serious when the person is emaciated

Fixed by eating and gaining weight

Always result of trauma or family problems

Impossible to recover from

A choice - but recovery is!

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