Eating

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Eating Disorders Awareness
wellness.ucsd.edu
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Myth 1

• You have to be
• underweight to have an
• eating disorder.

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False

• People with eating disorders come in all shapes
  and sizes. Many
• individuals with eating disorders are of average
  weight or are overweight.

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Myth 2

• Only teenage girls and young women are affected
  by eating disorders.

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False

• While eating disorders are most common in young
  women in their teens and early twenties, they are
  found in men and women of all ages.

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Myth 3

• People with eating disorders are vain.

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False

• Its not vanity that drives people with eating
  disorders to follow extreme diets and obsess over
  their bodies, but rather an attempt to deal with
  feelings of shame, anxiety, and powerlessness.

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Myth 4

• Eating disorders arent really that dangerous.

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False

• All eating disorders can lead to irreversible and
  even life-threatening health problems, such as
  heart disease, bone loss, stunted growth,
  infertility, and kidney damage.

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Guideline for Helping a Friend with an Eating
Disorder (Dos)

• DO HEED THE SIGNS - Anorexic behavior includes
  extreme weight loss, obsessive dieting,
  hyperactivity, distorted body perception. Clues
  of bulimia are more subtle Your friend may eat a
  great deal of food, then rush to the bathroom.
  DO APPROACH YOUR FRIEND GENTLY, BUT
  PERSISTENTLY - Tell her that you are worried
  about her, listen sympathetically. Do not expect
  her to admit she has a problem right away. Give
  it time.
• DO BE SUPPORTIVE
• DO ASK FOR HELP YOURSELF IF YOU SUSPECT YOU HAVE
  ANOREXIA OR BULIMIA.DO REMEMBER PROFESIONAL
  HELP IS NECESSARY - Call or give her a written
  list of sources or professional help

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• DO BE YOURSELF - Be honest in sharing your
  feelings i.e., Its hard for me to
• watch you destroy yourself. If you share a
  bathroom, let him/her know you
• object to the odor of vomit and the condition of
  the toilet. Ask him/her to
• clean up their mess of vomit somewhere else.
• DO GIVE NON-JUDGEMENTAL FEEDBACK IN I
  STATEMENTS - i.e., I see you
• refuse to eat with other people.
• DO COOPERATE WITH YOUR FRIEND IF SHE ASKS YOU TO
  KEEP CERTAIN
• FOOD OUT OF COMMON STORAGE AREAS - This may help
  him/her prevent a
• binge on such foods.
• DO FOCUS ON UNHAPPINESS AS THE REASON SHE COULD
  BENEFIT FROM
• HELP - Point out how anxious or tired and
  irritable shes been lately and
• emphasize that it does not have to be that way.

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Guideline for Helping a Friend with an Eating
Disorder (Donts)

• DO NOT ANALYZE OR INTERPRET.DO NOT CHANGE YOUR
  EATING HABITS WHEN YOU ARE AROUND YOUR FRIEND
  -Your normal eating is an example to your
  friend of a more health relationship with
  food.DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY HER EXCUSE
• DO NOT KEEP HER SECRET FROM THE FAMILY WHEN HER
  HEALTH AND THINKING IS IMPAIRED.