Become eating disorder aware

Eating disorders are mental health conditions that involve disordered eating behaviour.

People with eating disorders use disordered eating behaviour as a way to cope with difficult situations or feelings. 

Disordered eating behaviours may include eating too much or too little or worrying about your weight or body shape. This might mean limiting the amount of food eaten, eating very large quantities of food at once, getting rid of food eaten through unhealthy means (e.g. purging, laxative misuse, fasting, or excessive exercise), or a combination of these behaviours.

Having an unhealthy relationship with food can impact your life in lots of ways. Eating disorders affect people of all ages, genders, ethnicities and backgrounds - anyone can develop one.

While people with an eating disorder may lose weight or have low weight, eating disorders can occur at any weight and varies in different people. 

With treatment, most people can recover from an eating disorder.

Eating Disorders Awareness Week

There are a number of myths surrounding eating disorders, and too often, people go unseen or unsupported due to stigma, misinformation, and barriers to care. 

Eating Disorders Awareness Week aims to promote awareness about eating disorders, and sort fact from fiction. 

The Eating Disorders Awareness Week theme for 2026 is 'Community'. Eating disorders can be isolating and community plays a vital role in helping someone feel supported and understood in their journey.