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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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You need you

You don't need to be fixed, you need to be held by your own attention. When life feels overwhelming, ask yourself: Have I been abandoning myself in the name of busyness, people-pleasing, or perfectionism? Try this today: take 5 minutes to check in with your body, your breath, and your emotions—without judgment. Say to yourself, “I’m here.” Healing doesn’t always begin with action; sometimes it starts with simply returning home to your own presence.

What’s one gentle thing you can do for yourself today? Write it below so others can be inspired too.

~ 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

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Hope, to me, means...

Hope is a complex and multifaceted concept—experienced differently and on varying levels by each of us, depending on our unique circumstances. How we define, perceive, and understand hope shapes how it shows up (or doesn’t) in our lives, both individually and collectively.

What does hope mean to you?
What kind of relationship do you have with the concept of hope?
Can you describe a moment in your life when you felt hopeful?

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Hi, my name is HarvestSheepdog573. I'm here because IM worried about my hemorrhoids bursting

#MightyTogether #Grief #Crohn 'sDisease#OCD #EatingDisorder #Alpha1AntitrypsinDeficiency

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Hi, my name is HarvestSheepdog573. I'm here because IM worried about my hemorrhoids bursting

#MightyTogether #Grief #Crohn 'sDisease#OCD #EatingDisorder #Alpha1AntitrypsinDeficiency

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I'm new here!

Hi, Mighty community. I’m Wendy.I’m a writer and survivor living with a traumatic brain injury, a history of eating disorders, and anxiety.Like so many here, I’ve had to rebuild life around the unexpected—and sometimes around the unbearable.I write about identity, survival, and what happens when the old ways of coping stop working.
Some of my work explores how high achievement and perfectionism became both my survival kit and my roadblock.I believe invisible disabilities deserve visible voices.I’m here to share, listen, and connect with others who get what it means to live that daily push-pull of “I’m fine / I’m not fine.”

Grateful to be here. Looking forward to meeting you.

#MightyTogether #TraumaticBrainInjury #EatingDisorder #Anxiety