The eating disorder anorexia nervosa is an illness of deliberate starvation or severe restriction of food to become thin. Even though people with anorexia are underweight, people with anorexia are ...

Why are eating disorders often misunderstood? Many struggle, few are diagnosed: The reality of eating disorders ...

Anorexia and OCD are disorders that interconnect, often driven by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are two distinct mental health ...

In some ways, anorexia feels like one of the most significant things that ever happened to me; in others, it feels like the ten years I was ill never really happened at all. Illness of all kinds ...

Bulimia is a different eating disorder than anorexia but produces some of the same symptoms. Bulimia presents itself as an eating disorder in which a person eats large amounts of food (binges) and ...