By RTE Content Team — 2020
“I was struggling with my identity, and was very fearful of being discovered for being gay,” he says.
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What began as a proud assertion of identity has itself become a trope; the stereotype of a gay man now is one who goes to the gym and takes care of himself.
Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims? At its core, wellness demonizes calorically dense and delicious foods.
Alanis Morissette struggled with eating disorders in her teens and 20s. But then she discovered how good it felt to treat her body right—and this fall she ran a marathon to prove it. Here, Morissette opens up about her long, winding road to becoming healthy.
Body image distress is often seen as a symptom of an eating disorder. However, not every person with an eating disorder has a problematic body image and many people who do not have eating disorders have poor body image.
Conversations surrounding eating disorders, body image, and beauty standards are generally centered on the narratives of straight, cisgender* women. However, these conversations often exclude the experiences of many LGBT people who also struggle with body image concerns and disordered eating.
Body image is defined as one’s thoughts, perceptions, and attitudes about their physical appearance. How do you see yourself and feel about your body (e.g., height, shape, and weight) when you look in the mirror?
Eating disorders have historically been believed to primarily afflict heterosexual, affluent, cisgender, thin, white women.
"The assumption that eating disorders primarily affect young, affluent white women was based on research that was conducted on young, affluent white women."
Dr. Holbrook, a psychiatrist and the director of the eating-disorders program at Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc, Wis., is not most people's idea of a recovering anorexic.
The field of neurobiology and eating disorders is one that is being continually studied and understood.