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Why We Still Aren t Talking About Men s Eating Disorders
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In a room decorated with butterflies and inspirational quotes from female celebrities, a doctor hands a patient information about his recent eating disorder diagnosis. Using female pronouns, the pamphlet explains how the patient’s menstrual cycle will resume with recovery. Even for James L. Downs, “a gay yoga teacher who is in touch with his inner goddess,” this feels alienating. “I can only wonder how out of place a gym bro with an eating disorder might have felt in such a setting,” he tells InsideHook.
But Downs, a British mental health campaigner and “expert by experience” in eating disorders, was lucky. When 35-year-old Jason Wood finally sought treatment for orthorexia nervosa after struggling with disordered eating for two decades, his doctor simply suggested Wood go home and Google it. “My primary care physician didn’t provide me with a l ....

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