NEDAW

This post has nothing to do with my stupidity as a human- well, I guess it sort of does, in a perverse way, but that is not a topic for this particular blog at this particular time. :)

Anyway, it's National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2012! I have dedicated my various blogs, twitter accounts and social networking sites to spreading awareness to the diseases that have taken so many lives for hostage. Please take a few minutes out of your day to watch the following video from the National Eating Disorders Association; it is swell.




The theme this year is "Everybody Knows Somebody." Everybody knows somebody who: has tried every fad diet, makes degrading comments about their own weight, skips meals, exercises to compensate for eating... the list goes on and on. Everybody knows somebody who: purges, binges, or fasts, or maybe some combination of the three. Everybody knows somebody who struggles with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), binge eating disorder, or some other eating disorder. Everybody knows somebody.

The point of this week is to bring awareness to a topic that is often tabooed in our culture. Eating disorders are not fads, nor are people with eating disorders just "doing it for attention." And, it's not about the food.

Please use this week to spread awareness. Awareness can be as big as holding a conference about eating disorders, or as small as becoming more internally aware. I urge you to do one thing to spread awareness this week.

Until eating disorders are history,
S.A.