Though eating disorders are typically associated with young women, they can affect people of any age and gender, including boys. Currently, at least one-third of eating disorder patients are men, and rates of disordered eating are rising more quickly in young males than females. These trends accelerated during the pandemic, as many children attempted to cope with heightened anxiety, isolation, ...
The news that your child has an eating disorder is something no parent wants to hear. Unfortunately, all too often, this revelation comes as a complete surprise. Not all eating disorders are marked by sudden, dramatic weight loss, and in many cases, the patient manages to hide her (or his) condition for months or even years. This delays treatment and ...
Young women have always struggled with societal pressures where body image is concerned. For girls coming of age in the era of social media, however, this pressure has become substantially more intense and pervasive. Not only are girls today expected to grow up to be powerful, confident career women, they feel they have to compete with the heavily edited physiques ...
The last two years have been a period of prolonged stress and isolation for many people, leading to an increase ...
For the parents of overweight children, every day is a balancing act; on one hand, there is the natural desire ...
Anxiety disorders are found in children much more often than many people realize; ten to twenty percent of all children ...
