Tag: Eating Disorders

It’s time to talk about male eating disorders

Most can identify disordered eating patterns in women, but we don’t often talk about what those patterns might look like in men. That needs to change. Male eating disorders are a reality that, because of stigmatization and lack of awareness, often fall under the radar. When we think of eating disorders,...

Continue reading

Running towards recovery

This article discusses eating disorders and may be triggering for some readers. The Canadian Mental Health Association Crisis Line can be reached at 1-800-875-6213. I started running as a requirement for my 10th grade Phys-Ed class. Initially, I dreaded every time my gym teacher forced us outside...

Continue reading

My invisible friend ED

This article talks about eating disorders and might be triggering for some readers. Let’s get one thing straight — eating disorders aren’t diets.  The pervasiveness of conversations surrounding food and body image at Queen’s encourages an ignorance that has very serious repercussions for those who...

Continue reading

My obsession with perfection

Four years ago, I was admitted to the eating disorder unit at Sick Kids Hospital. It would be easy to lie and say that my battle with mental illness started a few months before I was sent to the hospital. Truthfully, it was something I had suffered with for years, but accepting it as a reality was...

Continue reading

A battle that ate me alive

First year is supposed to be an exciting time, but I spent mine battling with a pre-existing eating disorder. At the age of 14, I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, brought about by a perfect storm of unfortunate life events. I started feeling symptoms upon entering high school. I was lonely and...

Continue reading

AuthenticallyU: Promoting positive body image

Disordered eating and other concerns associated with a negative body image have become more widely understood as serious and pervasive, but it can still be hard to find support from sympathetic voices on campus. Dani Keren, a fourth-year life sciences student, is seeking to change that reality. She’s...

Continue reading

Queen’s faces of mental illness: Eating disorder recovery

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle featured personal stories from Queen’s student each day from Oct. 6-10. We’ll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with more stories. If you’re interested in submitting a story, please email journal_lifestyle@ams.queensu.ca. WARNING:...

Continue reading

Queen’s faces of mental illness: Eating disorder support

WARNING: This piece talks about eating disorders and may be triggering for some readers.As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle is featuring personal stories from Queen’s students each day from Oct. 6-10. We’lll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with monthly stories. If...

Continue reading

Queen’s faces of mental illness: MIAW 2014

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle is featuring personal stories from Queen’s students each day from Oct. 6-10. We’ll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with monthly stories. If you’re interested in submitting a story, please email journal_lifestyle@ams.queensu.ca. A...

Continue reading

Silently starving for more support

If you were diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, would you tell anyone? While most people wouldn’t willingly choose to suffer alone over the loving support of family and friends, I was suffering alone for many years. My illness is anorexia nervosa. The symptoms began when I was in...

Continue reading

Food for thought

You are what you eat. That’s probably what your mother told you as a child so you would eat your veggies, but think about it: our physical bodies are, quite literally, the re-construction of the elements that we consume. A few months ago, I offered a close friend a snack. Before even tasting it, she...

Continue reading

Eating disorders at university

By Carolyn Flanagan Assistant Blogs Editor February was National Eating Disorder Awareness Month. A highly complex mental health disorder, Mental Health First Aid Canada defines eating disorders as “severe disturbances in eating habits (either eating too much or too little), or weight control behaviour.” Prevalent...

Continue reading

Disorder overblown

Research from the University of Missouri suggests that a growing number of students forgo meals during the day in order to save calories for drinking alcohol at night. An Oct. 19 article from the Calgary Herald reported on the apparent trend that has been dubbed “drunkorexia.” According to the study,...

Continue reading

The Journal, Queen's University - Since 1873




© All rights reserved. | Powered by Digital Concepts

Back to Top
Skip to content