Advocating for eating disorder awareness

Advocating for eating disorder awareness

HICKSVILLE – For 15-year-old Katherine Green, a freshman at Hicksville High School, the world of pageantry is more than gowns and glitter — it’s about making a difference.

Texas Teen's Initiative Empowers Youth To Eliminate Stigma Around Eating Disorders - Channel Kindness

“You have two more weeks left to live.” This wasn’t the gift I had expected on my fourteenth birthday. On a day when I should’ve been celebrating another year, I sat in my doctor’s office, being told I might not get another one. Anorexia Nervosa. That was the diagnosis I received during the second semester of my eighth-grade year. At the time, I didn’t fully understand how bad I had let it become. But when my doctor explained that my heart rate …