Let’s have a check-in about body checking. Even if you don’t know this behavior by name, you’ve probably seen it modeled by influencers. In a looks-obsessed space like social media — and a cultural ...

In June of this year, TikTok banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok—an effort to limit the prevalence of harmful weight-loss content that had gradually carved out its own subculture on the app. But since then, ...

This summer I sat on my bed and watched as my sister tried on numerous outfits, changing over and over again, each time citing something “wrong” about her body and weight. I would respond by providing ...

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has found that excessive smartphone use is closely associated with disordered eating, ...

Body image is one of those quietly persistent struggles that many people carry daily, like background noise that affects everything but is rarely named out loud. As a psychotherapist specializing in ...

In the United States, eating disorders are the second most deadly mental health issue (behind opioid use disorder). And they are more common than you may think, affecting about 9 percent of the U.S.