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It’s hard to make people who have never experienced an eating disorder understand that these types of mental illnesses have little to do with eating. Sure, food and appearance are emphasized, but they aren’t the core of the...
Emma Rigby has picked up a prestigious award honouring Hollyoaks' treatment of her character's struggle with eating disorders. This year's soap category award in the Mental Health Media Awards went to the Channel 4 serial for...
Insurer to Classify Eating Disorders as Biologically Based Illnesses The largest health insurance provider in New Jersey has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by families who claimed they were denied adequate...
Teenager Imogen D'Arcy hanged herself after becoming obsessed with her body image An attractive 13-year-old girl described as 'fit, healthy and popular' killed herself because she felt fat and ugly, a coroners court has heard....
In many states (such as Virginia), families of autistic children have been seeking legislation to provide for insurance coverage for treatment (usually ABA therapy) for their children. A recent decision involving insurance...
Eating Disorders: Healing Through Collage There are many forms of art therapy. Pictures shoot past the defense mechanisms to the heart of the matter. Whenever a qualified therapist assigns a project, he or she knows what the...
