Tag: quality of life

advocacy “We need permission to live rather than to die”

“We need permission to live rather than to die”

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In the second post that June Alexander has adapted from Alykhan Asaria’s article on improving eating disorder care for underserved groups, the first of 12 underserved groups are discussed – people with longstanding eating disorders and older people with an eating disorder. Anecdotally, eating disorder (ED) sufferers are considered ‘older’...

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advocacy Listen to us: women with lived experience of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa

Listen to us: women with lived experience of severe and enduring anorexia nervosa

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Improved outcomes for adults with eating disorders are possible! Karen, Tanya and Anne could be forgiven for feeling down-hearted after struggling for decades with Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SEAN). However, they live in HOPE. This article is a collaboration by three Australian women in their fifties. Between them, they...

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