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Anorexia Lived experience inspires Korea’s first Eating Disorders Awareness Week

Lived experience inspires Korea’s first Eating Disorders Awareness Week

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Lived experience will feature in Korea’s first Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW), for which I’m responsible. I’ve often been told not to scale up things so hastily, not to put too many irons in the fire, but such cautions seem useless because I’ve developed a simple suggestion from Prof. Youl...

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Anorexia Eating Disorders as Metaphors – it’s time for change

Eating Disorders as Metaphors – it’s time for change

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It’s time to change our perspectives so we can think about eating disorders more clearly.  That is, it’s time to move away from current interpretations of eating disorders that are largely contaminated with “metaphors”. I am not referring to the therapeutic metaphors discussed in this article on The Diary Healer....

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The Diary Healer News An inside story about eating disorders in South Korea

An inside story about eating disorders in South Korea

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I was a fixture at all students’ writing contests and didn’t expect to be congratulated with just mundane prizes, but from second grade in high school, I was unable to write. I could write only self-pitying, crappy things, bleak, fragmented poems and, above all, things the judges of student writing...

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