Academic stress, social pressures, and college diet culture can all contribute to disordered eating.

After you’ve been away at college, eating disorder recovery can be hard to manage back at home.

If you also struggle with perfectionism, you likely have high expectations for your academic performance. Grades can make or break you. When you rely on test scores to determine your worth, it’s easy to spiral.

Even though it’s nothing more than a diet culture myth, having anxiety about the “Freshman 15” in college is real and valid.