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Lindsay Ensor
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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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Tattoo reads: Feed your brain.
Tattoo reads: Feed your brain.
Sarah Schuster
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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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Eli Slater
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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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This moment

Most people are never fully here.
Their mind is already chasing the next moment, the next solution, the next version of life where everything finally feels okay.

There is a quiet belief running in the background that says,
“This moment isn’t important. The next one will be better.”

But life does not happen later.
It only ever happens now.

When you are constantly waiting for the next moment, you miss your own life while it is unfolding.
You miss small moments of calm.
You miss relief that is already available.
You miss the fact that right now is survivable, even if it is imperfect.

Healing does not happen in the future.
Peace does not live in tomorrow.
They are practiced in this moment, exactly as it is.

The present moment is not standing in your way.
It is the only place your life actually exists.

How often do you catch yourself waiting for life to start later.
What would change if you let this moment be enough, just for a minute?

Also, if you're going through a tough time right now, I want you to know that I post daily mental health videos about how to deal with painful thoughts. So if you or anyone you know is struggling and wants help, click on one of the links below or write me if you have any questions you want me to answer

www.instagram.com/thomas_of_copenhagen

www.tiktok.com/@thomas_of_copenhagen

~ Thanks to all. Thanks for all. ~

#MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #Addiction #dissociativedisorders #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ADHD #Fibromyalgia #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #PTSD #Cancer #RareDisease #Disability #Autism #Diabetes #EatingDisorders #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #RheumatoidArthritis #Suicide #MightyTogether

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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'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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