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Students' Relationships with Food Can Become Very Dangerous

You keep a running tab of the calories you've consumed each day, and at any given moment, you know how many more you plan to allow yourself. You avoid social events that revolve around food. If you go, you make up excuses to explain why you aren't eating.

You have a long list of forbidden foods, and the thought of being forced to eat something you banned makes you panic.

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From Our Eating Disorders Forum

I Don't Know What I Have or If I Have Anything
JustMeMark wrote:

My name is Mark and I'm fifteen. Ever since I lost a lot of the weight I've been obsessed with trying to lose more and more, I've tried starving myself, purging several times and I'm at the stage now where I don't eat very much and what I do eat isn't really stuff that's good for me.

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Danielle's Journal

The Battle Begins

For some reason, ever since Friday, I have this awful feeling like I am going to throw up. I haven't thrown up involuntarily in so long, I forgot how awful it feels to have to and not want to.

Read my journal when you click here, then post your comments here.

Peace, Love and Hope

Warning Signs of Eating Disorders

Think that perhaps you or someone you know might be afflicted with anorexia or bulimia? Then you've come to the right place. Look over this list of warning signs of eating disorders, and if you match the majority of them, there is a good chance that you have an eating disorder.

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Eating Disorders are literally killing our you. Yet few parents, teachers or school counselors know how to recognize the signs of anorexia and bulimia. Nor do they know how to intervene when they suspect a teen is struggling with an eating disorder. Reflections tells the true-life story of four San Antonio teens and how they battled an eating disorder. It won the 2000 National Mental Health Association Public Service award. The film helps teens and adults understand the nature of eating disorders and why they should intervene.

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