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Why Eating Disorder Treatment is Failing Us All

I do not know if there is an in-patient eating disorder treatment center that currently exists that is safe for all people with non-dominant systemic identities at all levels of the organization. I do not know of an eating disorder treatment program for higher level of care where I as a fat, queer, non-binary person would feel safe to attend.

Accountability, Addiction, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Story, Body Trust, Cisheteropatriarchy, Diversity and Inclusiion, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Healthcare, Medical Weight Stigma, Mental Health, Ohio, Overeaters Anonymous, Physicians, Privilege, Queer, Recovery, Resilience, Shame, Sizeism, Thin Privilege, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, White Privilege, White SupremacySJ ThompsonDecember 12, 2018Eating disorders, Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating disorder treatment, Social Justice, Anti-oppression, Homophobia, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, Northeast Ohio, Ohio, Nalgona Positivity Pride Comments

Financial Instability, Food Insecurity, Medication, and Intuitive Eating

Let’s talk about Intuitive Eating. How do you navigate honoring your hunger or respecting your fullness, when you can’t afford to buy enough food? How do you enjoy the pleasure of eating, when you can’t buy food that sounds good to you? How do you enjoy the pleasure of eating, when you are worried about if you will be evicted from your home?

What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 3

In my graduate school classes, sizeism is mentioned once in the entire five years I’m a graduate student. Every single class is required to talk about marginalized identities and how whatever topic the class is focused on impacts those who are more marginalized or oppressed. Fat people are never mentioned except in the one class one time. I know from my lived experience that fat people are oppressed and I began studying feminism and learning about the history of size oppression in college. Eating disorders are covered one day in my “abnormal psychology” class and never mentioned again. Even in my “psychology of women” class eating disorders were never mentioned and diet culture wasn’t talked about.