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More than anything, you deserve to know this—you are not alone. We hope these stories find you like a friend, or a bit of light in the darkness.
Eating disorders are serious illnesses that involve extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding food, exercise, and body image. These are treatable mental and physical illnesses that can affect people of every age, body type, sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic group.
Eating disorders commonly co-occur with other mental health conditions like major depression, anxiety, social phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Additionally, they may run in families, as there are biological predispositions that make individuals vulnerable to developing an eating disorder.1
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders. They campaign for prevention, improved access to quality treatment and increased research funding to better understand and treat eating disorders.
Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous (ABA) is a fellowship of individuals whose primary purpose is to find and maintain sobriety in eating practices, and to help others gain sobriety.
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating.
The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the outreach, education, early intervention, support, and advocacy for all eating disorders.
An interactive database includes eating disorder treatment options at all levels of care. You can search based on specific criteria including zip code, populations treated, accepted insurance plans, treatment modalities, and levels of care offered.
FEDUP is a collective of trans+, intersex, and gender diverse people who believe eating disorders in marginalized communities are social justice issues. Our mission is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, research, empowerment, and education.
Disclaimer: Although TWLOHA believes in the power of professional help, you are responsible for selecting the provider or treatment. TWLOHA cannot accept responsibility for any of the services provided by these or any other providers.
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