ED Bites

I’ve written volumes about eating disorders over the years–beginning before I was even diagnosed. Most of the writings were personal, private- scribbled by dim desk light as my roommate (any of them) snoozed in the bunk a few feet away. I didn’t create them as stories. They were more the semi-deranged ravings of someone who [...]

Spend time in an eating disorder treatment center, and you will see some pretty strange stuff go down. Mealtimes, due to the stress-inducing nature of the situation and the presence of food, can bring out some of the most bizarre. We all probably have some amount of unusual food habits, most of which fall into [...]

As a child of the 80s, I remember the “Just Say No” drug campaigns well. I remember being a freshly minted 9-year-old, helping a friend campaign on the elementary school playground to bring DARE (aka, Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to our school. I thought I was doing the right thing, being an upstanding citizen, and [...]

No one knew what to do for me. The array of psychologists, dietitians, psychiatrists, physicians, and others that had been seeing me had essentially thrown up their hands. I needed to choose recovery, they said, and it was something I clearly wasn’t doing. Until I did so, there wasn’t anything they could do. I would [...]

So ED Bites is kind of my blog (yes, I’m a bit possessive about it), but it’s also your blog. If people didn’t read, I probably wouldn’t write. Or at least, I’d gush my existential angst in a private journal or password-protected blog. I have plenty of ideas to blog about, but I’m not always [...]

Carrie’s Note: One of the reasons I started ED Bites was to create a dialog between different people in the eating disorder field. I don’t expect everyone to agree all the time, and frankly, that would be kind of boring. I posted Holly’s piece a few days ago because I thought she raised some good, [...]

I have a few friends, many of whom are far, far smarter than I am. One of my friends is a pediatrician and asked me an interesting question today. With her permission, I’m posting it here to get your broader input on the issue: For starters, I blogged about the study my friend was referring [...]

On Thursday night, I was invited to participate in an awards ceremony on Twitter for the WEGO Health Activist Award. A very kind reader (I think I know who you are!) nominated me for their Paperboy award, which is given to the activist who provides news and information on a particular condition or subject. Yup…pretty [...]

{A brief, non-science-y post for your reading pleasure…} A wise parent I know said this recently: It’s something that it took me a really long time to figure out in terms of recovery. So often in treatment, I was told to think of recovery as a journey, not a destination. Which, okay, fine. But a [...]

A Swedish clothing store creates more realistic mannequins and the Internet collectively loses its shit. The photo (right) was shared earlier this week on Facebook by Women’s Rights News and gathered more than 2800 comments, 16,000 shares, and 50,000 likes. As Yahoo! Shine writer Elise Sole noted, “That’s a lot of attention for a hunk of fiber glass and [...]