NEDA’s Skill-Building Webinars

Watch a recording of a previous webinar or sign up for an upcoming webinar. Hosted by eating disorder experts, these presentations provide participants with practical skills to support recovery wherever you are on your healing journey.

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Upcoming Webinars

Offered in collaboration with the Anxiety & Depression Association of America

Clinicians and researchers have come to understand that the overlap of eating disorders, anxiety, and depression represents a more significant, shared underlying predisposition or vulnerability. In people struggling with eating disorders, there is often evidence of difficulty tolerating strong emotions, fear and accompanying avoidance, and anxiety-based symptoms felt in their bodies. This overlap is also evident in the fact that anxiety symptoms almost always start before eating disorder symptoms, that anxiety disorders are the most common overlapping diagnoses present in eating disorders, and that anxiety symptoms remain long after eating disorder symptoms have been addressed.  Understanding eating disorders as manifestations of anxiety can be enormously helpful as a way to better understand an illness that is often difficult to comprehend, especially for family and loved ones. We will explore this overlap and present the rationale for using exposure-based treatment approaches to help people better manage their anxiety and develop better ability to manage strong emotions.