Eating Disorders: How Stigma, Invalidating Comments, and Fear-Based Cognitions Maintain Restriction and Delay Help-Seeking
Eating disorders are serious, biologically and psychologically mediated conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behavior and related thoughts and emotions. Common syndromes include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder, each with distinct clinical patterns but shared mechanisms: rigid dietary restraint or maladaptive compensatory behaviors, cognitive preoccupation with weight or shape, and substantial impairment… Read More »