Honestly, I can’t remember the first time I really “learned” about eating disorders. From what i can remember, it was probably something I google searched after realising some of the behaviours I was exhibiting weren’t normal, and I didn’t feel like my peers or friends were the same. It wasn’t until getting a professional diagnosis from my family doctor and later from my therapy team at the hospital that I became educated about all my underlying symptoms in detail. Before being clinically diagnosed with an eating disorder it wasn’t really a certain condition or illness I even knew or cared about. And I think that’s where a lot of the shame and stigma is rooted in- this idea of this taboo eating “condition” that only a fraction of people experience, which in fact impacts thousands of individuals on a yearly basis, and has one of the highest mortality rates of all mental health disorders in Canada.
Dear Readers,
Please find below a video Samiha Rehman with ‘Let the Quran speak’ in Canada to raise awareness of Eating Disorders in Marginalized communities. To Read her story Click here.
To read about her Instagram Page Hopes to Raise Awareness about the Reality of Eating Disorders Among Muslims in Canada click here.
