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eating disorders Why an eating disorder should not be the main character of a life’s story

Why an eating disorder should not be the main character of a life’s story

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Isn‘t a story something with a beginning, a main part and a hopefully happy ending? I am not sure I can structure those past years of my life in such a way. Especially with the focus on my eating disorder. Thinking of its starting point, there are only assumptions to draw...

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The Diary Healer News Diary writing reveals eating disorder stigma and ignorance

Diary writing reveals eating disorder stigma and ignorance

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Too often, our words and behaviours become lost in translation and the eating disorder (ED) wins every time. Our diary provides a place to record our truth when no-one will listen. The Hidden Face of Anorexia  … This illness has cost me so much, for so long And I still...

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Eating Disorders Stepping out with stories to educate eating disorder clinicians

Stepping out with stories to educate eating disorder clinicians

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Today, I pushed another hole in the prison wall that an eating disorder erected in my brain at age 11. That wall effectively disconnected my healthy self from my body until I was 55. Thirteen years on, eating three meals and three snacks a day without guilt, shame and self-loathing...

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