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advocacy The system won’t save us: Reflections from Korea’s EDAW 2025

The system won’t save us: Reflections from Korea’s EDAW 2025

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Korea’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week (EDAW) 2025 was a whirlwind. I lived like a ghost, confined to my room packed with boxed props. My resignation letter had been submitted to my full-time job. My focus was stretched thin across every detail of the daily sessions: ticketing, Instagram promotions, Google Meet...

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Eating Disorders Hospitals must treat people with eating disorders with respect

Hospitals must treat people with eating disorders with respect

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Flaws in our public health system* are creating havoc in the lives of people with eating disorders (EDs). I am a mentor for Shelley**, who is in her 40s, and lives in a country town in Australia. Shelley has diagnoses of severe depression and severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SEAN)....

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