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What We Learned About Our 15-Year-Old Son’s Lesser-Known Eating Disorder

The DSM-5 (a manual that lists all psychiatric diagnoses, which medical professionals use) states that “avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder involving an extreme avoidance or low intake of food that affects growth and level of nutrients a patient receives.” My 15-year-old son has struggled with this for many years, but we [...]

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28 Beautiful Tattoos That Represent Eating Disorder Recovery

Eating disorder recovery — like recovery from many mental illnesses — if often spoken of like a life-long journey. Although you can recover from an eating disorder, it’s an ongoing process and one that can stick with you for a lifetime. To capture this journey of recovery, the National Eating Disorder Association asked its community [...]

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A Speech About Eating Disorders Every High School Student Should Hear

After being diagnosed with anorexia nervosa back in June 2016, we were asked to make speeches in English about something that was important to us. So here’s mine: A plea for education on the deadliness of eating disorders in secondary schools. Eating disorders are not “glamorous.” They’re deadly. You can thank today’s society for that. [...]

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Hi, my name is Sonadora. I'm looking for others with lived experience of bipolar disorder.

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I'm new here!

Hi, my name is Sonadora. I'm looking for others with lived experience of bipolar disorder.

#MightyTogether #BipolarDisorder #Grief #EatingDisorder #Migraine #Anxiety

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I am not finding the type of mental help that I want that can help change my life

There was one time I was hospitalized in a residential treatment center in Florida and one of the female mental health techs that I kept talking to and opening up to told me to make a wish and it will come true. I feel like the wish is coming true but it wasn’t even like a big wish. I wish I made a better wish. I wish that I can have 100 more wishes come true because honestly right now my life sucks and I am barely living. I hope I can get my 100 wishes one day soon. It would mean the world to me if I do.
#CheckInWithMe #MentalHealth #MightyTogether #Disability #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #Schizophrenia #Anxiety #ADHD #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #Psychosis #BipolarDisorder #Selfharm #Suicide #SuicidalThoughts #Depression #BipolarDepression #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #BingeEatingDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #AnorexiaNervosa #Autism #AutismSpectrumDisorder #Cancer #ChronicIllness #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #EatingDisorders #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #TraumaticBrainInjury #Trauma

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How can you prioritize your mental health today?

Happy Friday! 🌟

As the week winds down, let’s take a moment to pause and take three deep breaths. With each breath, think about what you need from yourself today. How can you prioritize your mental health right now, throughout the day, and into the weekend?

Today, I need to spend some time by myself reconnecting, reflecting, and restoring my energy after a really long and rough couple of months. I also need to write some affirmations to remind myself that I’m worthy of connection, that I have good ideas, and that I’m doing a great job navigating adulthood and life overall.

Feel free to share yours below! ✨

#BipolarDepression #BipolarDisorder #PTSD #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Schizophrenia #ADHD #Parenting #ChronicIllness #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Anxiety #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Depression #MentalHealth #selfcare #EatingDisorders #CheckInWithMe #CheerMeOn #CheerMeOn

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Hi, my name is KickingPike61601. I'm here because

#MightyTogether #EatingDisorder #PTSD #Anxiety #Depression #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #MultipleSclerosis

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#MightyTogether #EatingDisorder #PTSD #Anxiety #Depression #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #MultipleSclerosis

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What’s a symptom you’re figuring out how to manage better with your care team?

Living with a persistent symptom can be frustrating—especially when it shows up in different ways, overlaps with other diagnoses, or flares unpredictably and is hard to track.

What does that symptom look like for you? What questions have you asked your doctor, therapist, or specialist to better understand your treatment options? And what, if anything, has helped you find relief so far?

#MightyMinute #CheckInWithMe #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Disability #RareDisease #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Autism #Parenting #PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #BipolarDisorder #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #EatingDisorders #Depression #Fibromyalgia #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis #Migraine #Spoonie