Body Image & Eating Concerns

Over 29 million Americans experience a clinically significant eating disorder during their lifetime. The National Alliance for Eating Disorders defines eating disorders as a psychological condition that affects your relationship with food. If you need outpatient services to help manage your body image or eating concerns, check out this local treatment center. Food is not the enemy and you are more than a number on a scale. We come in many different and beautiful colors, shapes, and sizes. So let's focus on celebrating and honoring our bodies instead.

Disordered Eating Symptoms

  • Extremely restricted eating
  • Extreme thinness (emaciation)
  • A relentless pursuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight
  • Intense fear of gaining weight
  • Distorted body image, a self-esteem that is heavily influenced by perceptions of body weight and shape, or a denial of the seriousness of low body weight

Resources

Campus Resources

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Women's & Gender Equity Center
Student Health Services

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Contact

Counseling Services

4700 Powhatan Ave, Suite 2403
Norfolk, VA 23529

757-683-4401 office
757-683-3565 fax
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