Learn more about eating disorders

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Creator's Guide: Safe Sharing of Your Eating Disorders Story

Before sharing, check in with yourself: consider your emotional, physical, and psychological wellbeing, and reflect on where you are in your recovery process.

18 Sep, 2025

School Setting: Young People and Dieting

This factsheet discusses the risks of dieting for a young person.

21 Oct, 2024

Managing Distress in Individual with Eating Disorders

This fact sheet outlines the distress felt by individuals with eating disorders and provides some tips on how to help manage individuals distress.

20 Oct, 2024

Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa

This fact sheet provides you with an outline of severe and enduring Anorexia Nervosa.

20 Oct, 2024

What is Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

This fact sheet describes the main features, signs, and treatment options for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).

8 Oct, 2024

Webinar: Type 1 Diabetes & Eating Disorders – How can I help? What are the treatment options available to support this vulnerable group.

This webinar summarises what is currently known about interventions for people with type 1 diabetes who are misusing insulin or have an eating disorder, as well as the aetiology of the behaviour, with a focus on narratives from people with a lived experience of diabetes and eating disorder, discuss prevention strategies and emerging treatments.

2 Oct, 2024

What is Bulimia Nervosa?

This fact sheet describes the symptoms, causes, function and treatment options for Bulimia Nervosa.

2 Oct, 2024

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

This fact sheet describes the symptoms, causes, function and treatment options for Anorexia Nervosa.

2 Oct, 2024

Physical Complications of Over-Exercise

Over exercise is physically and emotionally damaging and is linked to overtraining syndrome, exercise dependence, muscle dysmorphia, menstrual dysfunction, osteoporosis, depression.

2 Oct, 2024

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Physical Complications of Self-Induced Vomiting

Self-induced vomiting is commonly reported in individuals with eating disorders as a form of compensation, that is, an attempt by the person to prevent weight gain by ‘undoing’ the effects of eating.

2 Oct, 2024

Eating Disorders and Older Populations

Eating disorders (EDs) can affect older people

9 Jul, 2024

Medical Risks associated with Eating Disorders

Eating disorders can have dangerous medical and psychological consequences, which without intervention can result in serious illness or death. Medical complications can occur from dietary restriction with rapid weight loss, excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting and excessive laxative use and can occur in any body size.

20 Jun, 2024