Eating Disorder Resources

My eating disorder was never formally diagnosed, and I found it challenging (and intimidating) to look for resources on my own. Here are some of my hand-picked links to self-assessments, diverse mental healthcare providers, and pieces of writing and research that helped me feel seen. 

Health Assessments and Providers

80+ Diverse Eating Disorder Treatment Providers and Activists from THREE BIRDS COUNSELING AND CLINICAL SUPERVISION

Health at Every Size Professional Registry from HAES by LINDA BACON

Personal Screening Tool from the NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION (NEDA)

Dos and Don'ts of Helping a Loved One with ED from the NEDA

Anorexia Knows No Body Type - and Thinking Otherwise Can be a Barrier to Treatment from Carrie Dennett @ THE SEATTLE TIMES

Recommended Reading

ONLINE

UNRULY BODIES SERIES on Medium.com, edited by Roxane Gay

REPORT: The Economic Costs of Eating Disorders, 2020, from STRIPED

Beauty School Newsletter from activist Melissa A. Fabello

Personal essays on weight and body image by Noley Reid

Essay: “Body Positivity is a Scam” by Amanda Mull

Essay: “Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong” by Michael Hobbes

Essay: “Eating Disorders Do Not Discriminate” by Michelle Konstantinovsky

Personal Essay: “Greens” by Kiese Laymon

Personal Essay: "People are Starving" by Suzanne Rivecca

Personal Essay: "The Trash Heap Has Spoken" by Carmen Maria Machado

Personal Essay: “Love and Restrictions: Food, Family, and Anorexia” by Reema Zaman

Personal Essay: “For Women, the Sin of Indulgence is the Worst Sin Imaginable” by Kristen Zory King

Personal Essay: “Hunger Makes Me” by Jess Zimmerman

BOOKS

FASTING GIRLS: THE HISTORY OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

ABJECT RELATIONS: EVERYDAY WORLDS OF ANOREXIA by Megan Warin

UNBEARABLE WEIGHT: FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY by Susan Bordo

A HUNGER SO WIDE AND SO DEEP: A MULTIRACIAL VIEW OF WOMEN’S EATING PROBLEMS by Becky Thompson

CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO EATING DIS/ORDERS Ed. Helen Malson

GOING HUNGRY: WRITERS ON DESIRE, SELF-DENIAL, AND OVERCOMING ANOREXIA Ed. Kate Taylor

Memoir: HEAVY by Kiese Laymon

Memoir: HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY by Roxane Gay

Graphic memoir: LIGHTER THAN MY SHADOW by Katie Green

Graphic novel: HOW I MADE IT TO EIGHTEEN by Tracy White