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In many ways it s been disastrous : COVID pandemic provides perfect storm for Americans with eating disorders By Grace Segers
March 5, 2021 / 9:00 AM / CBS News
Like many essential employees, Jessica, a grocery worker and graduate student in Atlanta, has been extremely overworked during the coronavirus pandemic. Overwhelmed by stress, she s fallen back into bad habits to cope.
Jessica, who is being identified by her first name only to preserve her anonymity, has struggled with bulimia for over a decade. I m bingeing just so I don t snap like a stressed-out rubber band. I know I can t purge, because that s unhealthy, Jessica said. So I find myself halfway through this cycle I ve spent years trying to break.
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Itâs plainly evident that many people are eating too much. But several serious eating disorders can be harder to see, especially when they deliberately hide the problem. Recent research indicates that pandemic-related stay-at-home orders have ramped up anorexia, bulimia and binge-eating disorders.
With COVID capturing all the headlines, itâs easy to lose sight of the looming mountain of mental health issues that are changing our healthcare horizon. Mental illnesses are the leading cause of premature death in Canada. In the U.S., Johns Hopkins University estimates that 26% of Americans ages 18 and older â about 1 in 4 adults â suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.