How to support someone with an Eating Disorder
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PRINCE GEORGE—Eating Disorder Awareness weak begins on February first and goes till the seventh. Eating Disorders can affect anyone at any age but how do you support a loved one with the condition?
Annorexia Nervosa is the deadliest mental illness with an estimate of five to twenty percent of patients dying from complication. People with an eating disorder will often view themselves as fat or overweight while being other wise malnourished.
“A really common stereotype is that eating disorders largely affect women, or maybe that people with eating disorders are small or thin. And so that’s really not true,” explains Rilla Lodge, Youth and Family Counselor with the Eating Disorders Program. “We know that eating disorders don’t distinguish gender, age, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, size. It really can happen to anybody.”
