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advocacy Lived experience must lead change: eating disorders, systemic silence, and a layperson’s resolve

Lived experience must lead change: eating disorders, systemic silence, and a layperson’s resolve

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Professor Kim’s reply had arrived in my inbox the previous evening, but I couldn’t bring myself to open it right away. When I opened it the next morning at my desk, I felt relieved. Prof. Kim wrote: It feels like [the eating disorders field is] several decades behind compared to...

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Putting fire in the belly of eating disorder recovery services

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Lived experience, from people who have experienced an eating disorder, and people who have been caregivers, is finding a place in the heart of treatment strategies. Eating disorder support services are under-developed. A lot of people with an eating disorder have suffered and continue to suffer under current treatment systems....

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