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This is an approach that is not weight, obsession with body image, use of dependent on federal or state funding, but supplements or laxatives, excessive exercise, increasing awareness through direct inducing vomiting, loss of tooth enamel engagement in traditional and social media. from repeated vomiting, and depression or Another related disorder, Muscle disgust about eating habits. dysmorphia or MDM, is common in many Jaime Frazier, MFT, a Primary Therapist LGBT urban areas like West Hollywood and with the Eating Recovery Center in San Francisco and has recently been Sacramento, is doing something about recognized as an eating disorder. It is based eating disorders and awareness in the LGBT on the same obsession with appearance, community. Frazier has worked with except rather than weight loss, the focus is patients suffering from eating disorders for on size and musculature. three years and has helped people to People with MDM use enhancements, successfully recover. such as steroids and creatine, and exercise Gay men represent forty-two percent of excessively and often have specific sports or the total men who have eating disorders, but athletic training goals. According to the make up less than five percent of the Journal of Athletic training and U.S. National general population. Additionally, gay and Library of Medicine and National Institutes bisexual men are seven times more likely to of Health Behaviors, over 100,000 people binge, and twelve times more likely to purge worldwide suffer from MDM. than heterosexual men. Experts like Frazier What makes eating disorders different attribute the disproportionality to the than dieting, exercise, or athletic discrimination, isolation and LGBT societal conditioning? According to Frazier, people issues like coming out. with eating disorders become compulsive, One affected man, Eric, is a graduate of an obsessive over size and image, and eating recovery treatment program. He maintenance. They refuse to eat, and often began to experience symptoms of an eating use laxatives or vomit until there are serious disorder and was diagnosed at age 12 and health risks. began treatment at age 18. His sexuality and According to Frazier, eating disorders are interest in theatre and dance made him feel very treatable, with an estimated 60 percent different. He describes feeling that his eating recovery rate. He believes recovery can be disorder was a way to manage his feelings permanent. about his homosexuality. The primary issues concerning funding “Both of my disorders severely are the pathology’s status as a disorder, the compromised my body and mental health. I wide range in severity of eating disorders was soon being hospitalized for severe and circumstances. The AMA urges inclusion complications with my heart and liver do to into all covered health. The dichotomy of the rapid weight loss and purging.” In 2002 being a behavioral disorder not a psychotic when he began seeking treatment, there disorder, viral disease, or autoimmune were still very limited treatment options for disease; and also the mental illness boys.