Tag: diagnosis

The parent’s part in eating disorders diagnosis

Chapter 3: How eating disorders are diagnosed, what to say to the doctor, the pitfalls to guard against, and tips on how to get expert care without delay.
Schools, this is how you spot an eating disorder

What are the behavioural, mood and physical warning signs that warn a school that a pupil may have an eating disorder?
Bizarre yet normal eating disorder symptoms

Bizarre but normal effects of an eating disorder and malnutrition. These will pass with eating disorder treatment.
Start here: find the information you need NOW

This website has lots of information, and I’ve produced many more resources. I guide you to the bits you need right now.
The main eating disorders: binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, ARFID and OSFED

The main eating disorders: binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, ARFID and OSFED. What defines them and how they affect a young person.
Not an eating disorder but just as serious: orthorexia, bigorexia and others

Describing disorders that are not diagnosable eating disorders but have similarities and may be just as serious: Orthorexia, Diabulimia, Bigorexia, Muscle dysmorphia, Drunkorexia
Some statistics: how common are the various types of eating disorder?

How common are eating disorders? I haven’t put this in my book, but I’ll give you some figures here in case you need it to convince your school or other authorities that eating disorders are anything but rare and that resources need to be allocated to them.

The parent’s part in eating disorders diagnosis