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advocacy Tragic outcome for psychiatric patient seeking help for diet pill addiction

Tragic outcome for psychiatric patient seeking help for diet pill addiction

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When the news broke, I couldn’t ignore it. The deceased young woman was reportedly at the Korean hospital for treatment of a weight loss drug addiction. News portals showed CCTV (closed circuit TV) footage of the woman, where she was forcibly restrained on a bed by hospital staff whose large...

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Anorexia Outsmarting the eating disorder triggers

Outsmarting the eating disorder triggers

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Anyone who has struggled with an eating disorder (ED) is familiar with the words trigger or triggered, and I am no different. Even though I am in the space of recovery, situations that could trigger eating disorder thoughts and behaviours are everywhere. Living in this diet culture/weight-biased world, there is...

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