Emotional & Mental Health Articles

Eating disorders disrupt every aspect of life, including relationships with life partners, families, friends, and work. Here's how to come back from those changes.

Anxiety is an almost universal experience of people who live with eating disorders, whether anorexia, bulimia, or binge-eating disorder. Relaxation therapy can melt away anxiety and make progress with other symptoms easier.

Traditional Chinese Medicine, which includes acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal medicine, can have a role in treating eating disorders. Sometimes it "presses a pause button" to stop unremitting symptoms, and sometimes it results in clear improvement.

Yoga offers both promise and peril for people living with eating disorders. Here is what you need to know about how to benefit from yoga without risk of a dangerous downside if you live with an eating disorder.

Body Awareness Therapy is a highly individualized, person-centered, drug-free approach to healing emotions for people living with eating disorders, brain injuries, or mental illness. Here's what the science says about how it works.

Alternative therapies can be helpful for both treating and preventing eating disorders. Here are nine kinds of therapy that may help.

Sometimes eating disorders can be treated on an outpatient basis. Sometimes they can be addressed in residential treatment. And sometimes eating disorders have to be treated in the hospital. Here are 10 signs inpatient care is needed.

Anxiety is common in people living with eating disorders. Anti-anxiety medications aren't the complete answer for this additional challenge of these conditions, but they can be very helpful. Here are three things you need to know about these medications.

The treatment of an eating disorder is never medication alone, but certain antidepressants support the long-term changes that lead to recovery. Here is what you need to know about the most commonly used antidepressants for treating eating disorders.

Psychotherapy is valuable, and probably essential, for returning to healthy eating habits in the process of recovery from an eating disorder. Here are five things you can expect with regard to psychotherapy for eating disorder.