Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders: What’s the Connection?

Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders: What’s the Connection?

https://psychcentral.com/blog/sexual-abuse-and-eating-disorders-whats-the-connection/ Donald described shamefully, “After my parents divorced, my mother would get drunk and dance around the house in her nightgown. She scared me, but the worst part was I got turned on. To try and get control, I began starving myself and developed anorexia. Through therapy, I now understand how I was trying to starve out…

I’ve felt alone for most of my life

http://www.changingmindschanginglives.com/2015/09/alice-what-people-forget-is-that-an-eating-disorder-is-a-mental-health-disorder/ Commonly people with eating disorders wear baggy clothing so people won’t notice them getting thinner – I didn’t. I wore as tight a clothing as possible so that I could at least appear normal to other people. What I didn’t know was that I didn’t appear normal to other people. My mother contacted the…

Coroner criticises care after man eats himself to death

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/71222478/Coroner-criticises-care-after-disabled-Hawkes-Bay-man-eats-himself-to-death A disabled man with an insatiable appetite for food ate himself to death, and his minders have been criticised for their shoddy care. Paul Douglas Thompson, of Hastings, died on April 8, 2013, after eating a “very large volume of food” at his supported living home, a coroner has found. It included 24 muesli…