If you’re familiar with Beutiful, BingeBehavior.com, Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) or Kari Adams with Killer Confidence with The Kari Adams Show, you may have seen a lot of activity last week about an event called “Binge Eating Disorder (BED) Week”. The five-day event, from May 27-31, has just ended – but not to worry if you missed it! We’ve put together a collection of everything the Binge Eating Disorder Week team and supporters produced over the week!
Moving Forward
Even though the social network campaign has ended, our responsibilities to our minds, bodies and culture have not. Please take some time to look at the action items below and commit to including them in your personal interactions with your doctors, legislative activism and any other community that you think will benefit from this encouragement. Those with BED have suffered in silence for too long. This year the American Psychiatric Association released its 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual earlier this month, which for the first time includes Binge Eating Disorder as its own distinct category. This is a big step forward to recognizing the disorder as the mental health issue it is, but much more work lies ahead in order for those suffering to get quality care and access to that care. The organizations sponsoring BED Week have identified several important action items that will increase prevention and access to treatment. We call on all eating disorders and healthcare professional societies, patient advocacy groups, private foundations, and government funding sources to scale up the discussion and action around the following: 1. Communicate that BED is a mental health condition requiring treatment 2. Increase prevention and treatment research, education, and outreach 3. End weight stigma and body bullying 4. Train all healthcare providers to recognize Binge Eating Disorder 5. Increase support of policy and advocacy education
Thank Yous
This campaign would not have been possible were it not for the generosity of our contributors. They enthusiastically poured their expertise into their posts and engaged with us to make sure we brought you the most credible and meaningful information. We want to give the most sincere thanks to the following individuals:
- Amy Pershing LMSW, ACSW, Pershing Turner Center LLC; The Center for Eating Disorders, Ann Arbor, MI
- Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Golda Poretsky, HHC, Founder, Body Love Wellness
- J. Casey Martin, MS, NCC, EDC Denver
- Jamie Jones, MA, LPC, ATR, Tatsumi & Jones
- Jeanine Cogan PhD, Eating Disorders Coalition for Research Policy and Action
- John Dolores, J.D., Ph.D., Center for Hope of the Sierras
- Katie Thompson MS, LPC, NCC, Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders
- Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD, Green Mountain at Fox Run
- Sunny Randoll Haas, Writer
BED Week Article Index below or visit the BED Week Post Schedule here
External Posts and Supporting Articles
Here is a complete list of all the wonderful articles that were written about Binge Eating Disorder (BED) Week! A big thank you to our supporters for their thoughtful and complimentary pieces! Green Mountain at Fox Run’s Blog, A Weight Lifted: Preventing & Treating Binge Eating Disorder: It’s BED Week! CFJ Counseling’s Chelsea Fielder-Jenkins: · Kicking off BED Week, May 27-31: The “do one thing a day” social media challenge! · Day Two of BED Week: What is BED? · Day Three of BED Week: Five Common Myths · Day Four of BED Week: What causes BED? · Day Five of BED Week: BED Treatment Libero Network: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) Awareness Week Psychology Today:
Eating Disorders News: Nancy Matsumoto – Check it out online: BED Week HealthShire: HealthShire’s Lana Reihani – #identitycrisis beat (beating eating disorders UK): beat – Binge Eating Disorder Awareness Week: Mythbusting
Activity on Social Networks
We held a tweetchat! On May 29th, BED Week partner Kari Adams of Killer Confidence with The Kari Adams show hosted a live tweetchat from 12-1pm (EDT). The hashtag to access all of the comments is #BEDCHAT – be sure to filter through the “All” option, not just “Top Tweets” in the upper left side of your screen. The outcome was fantastic and several eating disorder experts participated: Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD of Green Mountain at Fox Run; Dr. Lauren Muhlheim; Academy for Eating Disorders; E. Fitsimmons-Craft; Carrie Arnold; Kristin Seattle; Breathe & Nourish; Chelsea Fielder-Jenkins of CFJ Counseling and Dr. Stacy Rosenfeld – lots of great info was shared in discussion. You can review the chat by using the hashtag #BEDCHAT Our twitter campaign In addition to using the BED Week facebook event page, we also took to twitter to do some serious promotion, fact-sharing and discussion. You can catch up on the tweets by using the hashtags #BEDWEEK, #DSM5, #BEDAWARENESS, #EATINGDISORDER and #ED. Check out the facebook event page! Our Binge Eating Disorder Week images Over the days of BED Week, we shared tons of great images which included factual information, quotes from leading experts in the eating disorder community and inspirational quotes from celebrities. You can check these images out on the BED Week 2013 Pinterest board!
Social Network Support
Organizations: Academy for Eating Disorders, beat – Beat Eating Disorders UK, Body Love Wellness, Castlewood Treatment Centers, Center for Eating Disorders, CRC Health, Eating Disorders Coalition for Research and Policy Action, EDC Denver, Green Mountain at Fox Run, HealthShire, Libero Network, Pershing Turner Centers Individuals, Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends: Angela Wurtzel, MA, MFT, Anna Sweeney, MS, RD, BHNDPG, BrittishFittie, Carol Kivler, MS, CSP, Carrie Arnold, Chelsea Fielder-Jenkins, Cindy Hornsby, Colleen Kelly of Jeanne Murphy, PR, Diane Keddy MS, RD, Dr. Deah Schwartz, Dr. Lauren Muhlheim, Dr. Stacy Rosenfeld, E. Fitsimmons-Craft, Eating Disorder Network of Maryland, EDRC, Enthrive, Girls Change the World, Jana Miller, Javier N. Anselmo, MD, Kathleen MacDonald, Kerri Wachter, Kristin Seattle, Laura Collins, MEDA – Multi Service Eating Disorder Association, Mental Health Laur, Normal In Schools, Patricia Lemoine, Recovery Sam, Therapeutic Space, VoiceAcceptance, Walden Behavioral Care, Yve Clark
BED Week Article Index
Here is a compilation of all the articles that were posted on our websites during BED Week, as well as information about our amazing contributors. Please visit the BED Week Post Schedule for more information. Articles at Beutiful Magazine:
- What is Binge Eating Disorder?
- Erase All Stereotypes: The Most Common Eating Disorder is BED by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
- Binge Eating Disorder and Men by J. Casey Martin, MS, NCC, Program Coordinator, BED Treatment Program, EDC Denver
- Recognizing Binge Eating Disorder and its Symptoms
- How to Assess the Underlying Issues of Binge Eating Disorder by Hayley Miller, MS, RD, LDN
- The Behaviors and After-Effects Associated with Binge Eating Disorder
- What is the DSM-5 and What Does it Mean for Binge Eating Disorder?
- Body Image and Binge Eating Disorder: A Fine Line
- My Experience with Binge Eating Disorder by Lizabeth Wesely-Casella, Founder of BingeBehavior.com
- BED Discovery and Recovery
- Why Portion Control Doesn’t Work (And What To Do Instead) by Golda Poretsky, HHC, Founder, Body Love Wellness
- Binge Eating Disorder: Learning Nutritional Rehabilitation
- Avoiding Triggers, Building Support System, Moving on from Binge Eating Disorder
- My Journey Through Eating Disorder Recovery and How I “Killed It” by Kari Adams of Killer Confidence with Kari Adams Show
- Binge Eating Disorder Resources and Info
Articles at BingeBehavior.com:
- Welcome to Binge Eating Disorder Week!
- Binge Eating Disorder: The What, Why and What it Takes to Treat it by Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD, Green Mountain at Fox Run
- Coming Home: Rescuing Our Bodies from Weight Stigma by Amy Pershing LMSW, ACSW; Executive Director, Pershing Turner Center LLC, Annapolis, MD; Clinical Director, The Center for Eating Disorders, Ann Arbor, MI; 2013 Chair, Binge Eating Disorder Association
- What Does BED Look Like? by Lizabeth Wesely-Casella, Founder of BingeBehavior.com
- Erase All Stereotypes: The Most Common Eating Disorder is BED by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
- Residential BED Treatment Programs and Why They Work by Katie Thompson MS, LPC, NCC; Primary Therapist, Lead Eating Disorder Group Therapist, Binge Eating Disorder Group Facilitator/Coordinator, Castlewood Treatment Center for Eating Disorders
- Stop Avoiding Life by Jamie Jones, MA, LPC, ATR; Eating Disorder & Body Image Specialist, Individual & Group Therapy, Design and Color Consultant, Tatsumi & Jones
- Legislation, Advocacy and Eating Disorders by Jeanine Cogan PhD, Policy Director, Eating Disorders Coalition for Research Policy and Action
- Weight Bias Swings Both Ways by Sunny Randoll Haas, Member BingeBehavior.com
- The Effect of the Inclusion of Binge Eating Disorder in the DSM-V by John Dolores, J.D., Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Hope of the Sierras
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