Hey friends!

Here to tell you about, 'luv_is_beauty,' a new support community for those with/who have recovered from eating disorders/eating issues! The more friends and support the better, right?! Since luv_is_beauty is so brand spankin' new, its focus is extremely flexible and open to input! Help shape a new support community!! Come ( Read more... )

Hi, all.

I’m working on a paper about grief and eating disorders for a graduate-level social work class. If you have a few minutes, would you mind answering a few questions for me? Any information included in the paper will be anonymous. In your answers, please keep in mind the guidelines of the community, and refrain from including ( Read more... )

Various branches of psychologists and sociologists have made the association between eating disorders and the external environment. They are seen by some as a cultural phenomenon, a reaction to family dynamics, a way of interfacing with a world too complex and overwhelming for us. A way of maintaining our boundaries.
So, where do you think your ED ( Read more... )

I was recently introduced to a new concept: Finding meaning in the experience of an eating disorder. It would never have occured to me that there might be something spiritual or useful beyond the self-knowledge that comes from any trying experience, to me an ED has always been just a disease. What possible meaning could there be? I can understand ( Read more... )

"This theoretical point of view is in line with recent empirical findings. Bachar and colleagues used the differentiation between the attraction to and repulsion by life and the attraction to and repulsion by death as independent factors in order to clarify the perceptions of life and death among ED patients.14 They found that AN patients are ( Read more... )

In case you haven't heard, the whole healthcare "overhaul" that's going on is mandating that chain restaurants start putting calorie counts on their menus. Personally, this makes me want to cry and gouge my eyes out for a number of reasons. And I think that the needs/concerns of the eating disordered community (10 fucking million people) were ( Read more... )

"Yes, we can!"

All of you Americans.
Go vote.
Now.

Every single person in the rest of the world wants to go and vote in your election so don't dissapoint us by not showing up at the voting booths.

That is a question I always secretly want to answer.

So, ( my answer-Pt. I: )

I'm currently working on an installation and video performance piece that deals with the connection between the ideal of 'purity' and the rituals that people partake in to reach this goal. My main focus is on the acts of self mutilation/ self deprivation that lead to "spiritual purity" in a religious and non-religious sense ( Read more... )