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How Routine Blood Tests May Help Indicate Mental Health Disorders

...almost a million people found that a number of mental health disorders — including certain depressive and eating disorders — were linked to biomarkers that can be easily detected in...

By Devrupa Rakshit

End Diet Culture

‘Drunkorexia,’ Or Skipping Meals After Binge Drinking, Can Cause Nutritional, Cognitive Deficits

...shape, and look desirable for people, which pushes them towards disordered eating.” Related on The Swaddle: Could Intuitive Eating End Diet Culture? “Eating disorders are often enabled by fatphobia,” added...

I'll Take It In My Room

Is This Normal? ‘I Don’t Like to Eat in Front of Other People’

...with eating disorders or body image issues, such statements can be triggering. But given that we can’t truly be aware of who’s struggling with what behind closed doors, perhaps, it’s...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Disorder In The Mind

Anorexia Changes People’s Brain Structures, New Study Shows

...eating disorders were found to be associated with lesions in the brain too. Anorexia is also associated with the highest mortality of all eating disorders. MRI studies have also shown...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

(No) Relationship With Food

What It’s Like To Live With: An Undiagnosed Eating Disorder

...able to tell something’s up with me all the time. Related on The Swaddle: A Plus‑Size Model Shares She’s Anorexic, Proves Appearance Isn’t Sole Marker of Eating Disorders I’ve begun...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Within And Outside

A Weak Gut‑Brain Connection Can Lead To Negative Body Image: Study

...of “feeling uncomfortably full” in people living with eating disorders, or similarly, the feeling of one not “hav[ing] enough air” in panic disorders. Whether the findings of the two studies...

By Devrupa Rakshit

eating disorders

Inside the Mind of Someone Struggling with Bulimia

Eating disorders can seem mystifying to people who have never struggled with them. But a new study using magnetic resonance imaging scans shows how the brains of people with bulimia...

eating disorders

New Study Sheds Light on Genetic Causes of Anorexia

...potential metabolic root cause to the eating disorder, as well as a psychiatric one. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterised by low weight, fear of gaining weight, valuing thinness,...

By Liesl Goecker

Who Eats, Babe?

...disorders across the world and many of them start getting eaten alive by these disorders when they are very young. This needs to change, and as mothers we are perfectly...

By Neha Hiranandani

All the Different Causes of Bloating — And What to Do About Them

...is a one-off, irregular experience, it’s possible you’re simply experiencing bloating as a symptom of classic indigestion — usually as a result of eating too much or too fast, eating...

By Liesl Goecker

Separated Nerves

All You Need to Know About Separation Anxiety Disorder

...recognized as one among a spectrum of anxiety disorders that can negatively impair someone’s life. In other words, separation anxiety itself is normal and a healthy part of an individual’s...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

A New Study in India Links Air Pollution to Weaker Bones

...loss. They’re also more likely to experience thyroid problems, have eating disorders, have autoimmune disorders, and lead more sedentary lifestyles — all risk factors for osteoporosis. While osteoporosis — already...

By Liesl Goecker

Eating Placenta After Birth Is Neither Helpful Nor Harmful

...disorders. “While there is currently no evidence to support the efficacy of placentophagy as treatment for mood disorders such as postpartum depression, our study suggests that if neonatal infection from...

By The Swaddle Team

A Retrospective

From Feminist Porn to Psychic Tears, the Best of The Swaddle in 2019

...at Hospitals Took on diet culture and disordered eating Could Intuitive Eating End Diet Culture? An Obsessive Need to Keep a Healthy Diet Could Soon Be Classified as an Eating...

By Liesl Goecker

Rinse And Repeat

How My Mother and I Coped With Our Shared History of OCD Amid a Pandemic

...increased risk of other psychiatric disorders involving the serotonergic pathways like depression, anxiety, eating disorders and addiction disorders.” Despite both our eventual diagnoses, it is hard to ignore how long...

By Urmi Bhattacheryya

Why Some People Can’t Do Anything in Moderation

...people who suffer from anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation, or those who have been diagnosed with eating disorders, according to a 2018 paper published in Clinical Psychological Science. An all-or-nothing...

What Does Gluten Free Really Mean?

...of medical conditions grouped under the umbrella term ‘gluten related disorders.’ But as people without these disorders adopt the diet in droves, nutritionists are questioning whether it’s a healthy route...

By Mihika Mirchandani

How Indian Women’s Mental Health Is Deeply Tied to Proper Menstrual Care

...also face a level of impairment that is similar to major depressive disorder (MDD). Menstrual disorders are often comorbid with affective and anxiety disorders, like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and...

By Anna Maria Joseph

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