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Category: Males with Eating Disorders

Male Athletes & Eating Disorders: When is it Time to Consider Treatment?

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Travis Stewart, LPC, NCC – Director of Business Development and Marketing and Riley Nickols, Ph.D., CEDS McCallum Place In recent years more male athletes have begun to talk openly about [...]
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Dude, You Have an Eating Disorder

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Contributor: Andrew Walen, LCSW-C, LICSW, CEDS, Founder and Executive Director of The Body Image Therapy Center Yes, males can develop an eating disorder. It may not seem like it, as [...]
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Russell Brand’s Battle with an Eating Disorder

Russell Brand has talked openly about his mental health struggles, including his struggle with bulimia [1]. It can be helpful for celebrities to talk about their struggles with mental health [...]
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Diversity and Eating Disorders: Changing the Face of the Diagnosis

Contributor: Marissa Edwards, Ph.D., at The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt Picture someone with an eating disorder. The image that probably popped into your head was a white, [...]
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Eating Disorder Risk and Sexual Minorities

The list of overwhelming daily life challenges facing sexual minorities in our culture continues to be unacceptably long. Unfortunately, being at a higher risk for developing disordered eating beliefs and [...]
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Why Eating Disorders Affect More Men Than You Think

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Contributor: Staff at Carolina House Ask 100 people on the street which gender they associate more with eating disorders, and you’ll probably get the same answer. For decades, the stigma has [...]
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The Benefits of Gender-Specific Eating Disorder Treatment

Contributor: Staff at Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center The prevalence and presentation of eating disorders are among the many psychological and physical differences between individuals of different genders. Gender-specific eating [...]
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How Men Experience Eating Disorder Recovery

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I suppose the first thing I should mention in this blog is that I am not a man. I assert this because I, a cisgender, white female, don’t want to [...]
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Men and their Muscles – Muscular Dysmorphia

Eating Disorders do not discriminate on background, religion, socio-economic status, race, sex, or gender. In fact, although we think about Eating Disorders as primarily a “female disorder,” according to NEDA [...]
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Body Image Issues
September 3rd, 2020
Disordered Exercise, Eating Disorders and Sports Therapy
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Body Image Issues
August 6th, 2020
Exercise and Poor Body Image
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Exercise Dos and Don'ts
July 8th, 2020
Exercise and Eating Disorder Recovery
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Exercise Dos and Don'ts
April 15th, 2020
Excessive Exercise Can Be a Risk Factor for Disordered Eating
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