#ed+recovery

[enbycarp]

Via The Nutrition Tea on Facebook. Reminders from Shana Minei Spence.

[clleanlliness]

life is better when you're not malnourished btw

[desultory-suggestions]

If you are feeling good about yourself or situation and then your mood suddenly shifts leaving you feeling insecure, unsure, etc. try to remind yourself that nothing has truly changed but your perception. Your cute outfit did not suddenly become horrid. Your delicious meal did not tranform into a terrible one. Your peers perception of you has not radically transformed over a social misstep. Everything we experience is put through it through our mental filter, and that can convince us that everyone else sees us with the judgement we have for ourselves. Be kind to yourself.

[emmelyy]

I promise you were not placed on this earth to try and shrink your body until you die.

[hazedxg0]

While I am glad that ARFID has been getting more awareness recently, it really does bother me when people claim that it's something only autistic people have or when they call it the "sensory issues eating disorder".

Because while ARFID certainly can present that way, by definition it's just any clinically significant restrictive eating or feeding disturbance that isn't body image based. It also commonly presents as:

Lack of interest in food or eating—such as a result of major depressive disorder, schizoid personality disorder, the negative symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, dissociative disorders, etc

Avoidance of specific foods that are PTSD triggers, or of eating as a whole due to traumatic events that happened around mealtimes or in kitchens or dining rooms

Avoiding food due to phobias surrounding vomiting, choking, allergic reactions, etc

Avoiding food due to OCD surrounding due to magical thinking around the consequences of eating (i.e. fearing that a loved one will die if you eat a specific food), obsessions surrounding poisoning or allergic reactions, or food restriction as a compulsion

Avoiding food as a result of delusions or paranoia in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, paranoid personality disorder, etc

And so on. Of course AFRID as a result of autism and sensory processing disorder deserve awareness as well, but it would be great if people could develop a more holistic view of the different ways ARFID can present instead of just calling it "the autism eating disorder".

[disabled-dean]

hey. we're all remembering to center fat people's experiences in the fat liberation movement, right? we're not just using the work to feel better about ourselves, right? we're all listening to people in fat bodies and doing the- hey. hey c'mere, get back here.

[ogsuicidal]

we must hold the line against anorexia in these trying times…

[therewillbelightinthedark]

It’s summer now so i want to remind everyone that there is no need to “lock in” or lose weight