Understanding eating disorders
Are you suffering from an eating disorder, frustrated by the lack of understanding and support you’ve gotten from friends, family, and the church? Or are you watching helplessly as a loved one is being worn down by an eating disorder, but you don’t have the slightest clue how to help them?
Eating disorders are frighteningly common, especially among teenagers and young women but also among young men. What causes an eating disorder, and what desires and thought processes keep a person enslaved to it? The first step to helping people through such a disorder is to understand eating disorders and why people succumb to them. Read through the above article, written by Vicki Harvey at ACTS International, and educate yourself about these disorders–and the terrible pain and low self-esteem that create them.
