Theoretical approaches, treatment preferences, and clinician bias all play a role in the ways we understand eating disorders.

They're tired all the time. They fainted at school. Their blood pressure, body temperature or heart rate are super low.

Eating disorders can involve unmistakable changes, such as severe weight loss, as well as hidden signs, such as binge-eating alone. Identifying an eating disorder as soon as possible is important ...

Key Takeaways Heavy smartphone use is linked to uncontrolled and emotional eating in young peopleRisks for body dissatisfaction and food addiction symptoms rose for those using phones over seven hours ...

Compulsive overeating and binge eating disorder both involve eating in excess. Doctors classify them differently based on the frequency and severity of symptoms. Binge eating may qualify as a mental ...

Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or BED, and orthorexia are serious, potentially life-threatening mental health conditions. They're also common, affecting around ...

There was a time in the late ’90s when real people struggling with a very real mental health condition were “talent” to entertain the masses. Sally Jessy Raphael, Jenny Jones, and other daytime ...

Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic (AEDC), the newest clinic at the Psychological Services Center, is expanding access to mental health care by providing empirically based, low-cost treatment for a ...

Nonprofit Project Blackbird uses film and discussion to help students open up about mental health, eating disorders and ...

As a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders, Kim Dennis, MD, has seen firsthand the complex relationship between obesity treatment and mental health in adolescents. Kim Dennis, MD Now, with the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) classifies eating disorders as mental health conditions. Because of that, treatments for eating disorders fall under Original Medicare (parts A and B ...

Teens hide eating disorders for the same reasons as adults. They may feel ashamed or worry that if others find out, people will try to stop them from engaging in disordered eating. People with eating ...