Binge-Eating Disorder (BED) in Men
During #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek I posted some resources on Twitter that I thought might be useful to capture here for men or their loved ones, as BED is so overlooked. Most definitely…
Posts Categorized: Campaigning, Awareness Raising & Media
Ambivalent Men? Male Experiences of Eating Disorders
Here’s a re-post of a piece I wrote for the Male Psychology Network a while ago. I thought, given International Men’s Day last month and some of the things I…
Coping at Christmas
Some prominent (M)ED experiencers, campaigners, and talented practitioners are offering a workshop based around yoga and compassion to help people and/or their carers & families tackle what is (speaking from…
The Fat Male Body in Eating Disorders Research
[originally published pre-book publication] I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be a binge-eater who is male…and fat. Gone are the days when my bingeing was…
Books About Male Eating Disorders 3
My post for Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2020, and our third post in my series about books where the topical focus is male eating disorders, complement’s last month’s post. The…
MAN in the media
In this case, of course, I’m referring to the apt but tritely wrought acronym for Male Anorexia Nervosa. Men with body image issues and anorexia have hit the media once…
Male Eating Disorders – contributing to public understanding
I am honoured to have been mentioned by Mirror-Mirror.org. Helping to improve public understanding of the nature of male eating disorders is just as important as advancing new knowledge gleaned…
University of Sheffield – Autoethnography of MED
Thanks to everyone whom I met at the event at Sheffield Medical School. I was particularly struck by how welcoming everyone was and the high quality of the questions that…
Treating my Enduring Eating Disorder
There is a such a thing as a Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder (SEED). My own disorder as been severe at different points in my life, and has been heading…
Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Prevalence of Male Eating Disorders
Assessing the prevalence of disordered eating in males continues to be a complex puzzle. Below, I try to make sense of what we can learn from the research literature to…
Zayn Malik’s ‘Eating Disorder’
It has been a goodly while since I updated my research journal because I’ve been finishing my PhD, which I submitted yesterday (excitingly). This week the media has had a…