Orthorexia and the Need for Awareness

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The chapter highlights the importance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week and focuses on spreading awareness about Orthorexia, an obsession with healthy foods that can lead to serious eating disorders and mental health issues. It emphasizes the lack of formal recognition of Orthorexia in the DSM but underscores the need to recognize it as a significant issue within the spectrum of eating disorders.

Couch Talks is the bonus episode of You Need Therapy that comes out every Wednesday where Kat answers questions that listeners send to kathryn@youneedtherapypodcast.com.

This week, however, Kat is taking time to celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Week by talking about a form of disordered eating that gets overlooked very easily. Orthorexia is a type of disordered eating where someone becomes obsessed with the health of foods. It is not yet recognized in the DSM (diagnostic statistical manual for mental health disorders) but regardless this type of obsession with food/health can lead to an official diagnosis of an eating disorder a couple of different ways.

Resources for eating disorders - Books:

Life Without Ed

Feed Yourself

Body Image Workbook

Social Media Accounts:

@meanttoeat

@Yrfatfriend

@Victoriabrowne

Full Orthorexia Episode: Orthorexia + Whole30

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