Mental Health Update

Good post on eating disorders related to performance pressures.

As a dancer/figure skater/WOMAN, I know all too well the world of eating disorders. My own personal eating habits are crazy effed up - that in itself is a long, painful story that I choose to keep private at this time - so I’m definitely not one to give advice. But somehow giving advice is easier than taking it. Unfortunately, dance.net is littered with young ladies who are literally destroying their bodies in order to get that impossible-if-only-by-genetics-or-starvation Balanchine look. It really saddens me to see these girls with such amazing potential - true athletes and artists that in many cases have opportunities to turn professional - see flaws in their bodies that aren’t really there.

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