Anorexia Myths

Drop everything and read this! It’s very good.

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Calling all parents/carers who are worried about the Assisted Dying Bill. Please read and sign this open letter.

The assisted dying bill is not safe for those affected by eating disorders

#anorexia #AssistedDyingBill

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Research participants needed!

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Calling all parents/carers who are worried about the Assisted Dying Bill. Please read and sign this open letter.

The assisted dying bill is not safe for those affected by eating disorders

#anorexia #AssistedDyingBill

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Very well worth taking your timr to read this.

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Homeopathy is arguably the most unscientific alternative medicine.

It postulates that a remedy becomes more effective when the active ingredient has been diluted out of existence.

- Dr. Harriet A. Hall

Mind Control — Anorexia Myths Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

‘I soon began to see similarities between the mum on screen, desperately trying to get her daughter out of the cult, and me at home, trying to pull my daughter from the grip of anorexia.’ Rachel Smeeth on the parallels between cults and anorexia.

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Mind Control — Anorexia Myths Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

‘I soon began to see similarities between the mum on screen, desperately trying to get her daughter out of the cult, and me at home, trying to pull my daughter from the grip of anorexia.’ Rachel Smeeth on the parallels between cults and anorexia.

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/mind...

Mind Control — Anorexia Myths Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

NEW POST!

Guest blogger Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

#anorexia #eatingdisorders #cults #mindcontrol

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Mind Control — Anorexia Myths Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

NEW POST!

Guest blogger Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

#anorexia #eatingdisorders #cults #mindcontrol

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/mind...

Basic discovery brings hope to those facing eating disorders A fundamental research discovery from a 2012 Brain Canada MIRI grant is now bringing relief to patients living with an eating disorder, which has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disease ...

Exciting research

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Does anyone know if there’s a way of posting on Twitter and here? I need to be on here more on there. It can get so nasty over there.

Anorexia and Assisted Dying — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Why anyone with a loved one with anorexia should be worried about the Assisted Dying Bill.

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Anorexia and Assisted Dying — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

If a patient with a chronic illness refuses treatment and, as a result, is on a pathway to mortality, would this patient’s illness now be terminal?

#AssistedDyingBill

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I kind of like it over here but I’m still at the other place too.

But also:

Let’s get some more effective treatments!

New Treatments: Estrogen Patches — Anorexia Myths In the third in our series on novel treatments, Anorexia Myths chats to psychiatrist Dr Romi Goldschlager about a new trial looking at the effects of estrogen on anorexia nervosa 

I love this:

‘some of the consultants there inspired me with their compassion and their relentless hope… I think that’s what really called to me, that the kindness was probably the strongest thing that we had to fight against an eating disorder.’

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As the Senedd rejects assisted dying, those with mental illnesses still face high stakes in Westminster James Downs, Mental Health Campaigner This week, the Welsh Senedd debated proposals to introduce assisted dying but narrowly voted against it, however, momentum is growing in the UK, with public figur...

I wrote about concerns over assisted dying for those with eating disorders for the brilliant @nation.cymru - nation.cymru/opinion/as-t...

Please consider this:

⚠️Oregon’s assisted dying laws (closest to that proposed in 🇬🇧) limit assisted death to terminal illnesses only

⚠️Anorexia cannot be defined as a terminal illness

⚠️People with anorexia have HAD assisted deaths in Oregon

🚨We don’t need to fear a slippery slope. It’s here.

You are amazing. I’m nowhere near catching up!

Anorexia Nervosa: the Girl Problem — Anorexia Myths Anorexia was long thought to be almost exclusively an illness of young girls. This perception has contributed to the illness being woefully under-researched and treatment being shamefully underfunded....

Still really proud of this piece, which never really got any traction for some reason. Perhaps because, well…

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Anorexia and Assisted Dying — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Some doctors in 2024 believe that, if they discharge a patient from treatment at an extraordinarily low BMI, their brains may be miraculously able to change. There is still a great deal of magical thinking in the world of eating disorders.

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New Treatments: Estrogen Patches — Anorexia Myths In the third in our series on novel treatments, Anorexia Myths chats to psychiatrist Dr Romi Goldschlager about a new trial looking at the effects of estrogen on anorexia nervosa 

New treatments: a new trial into estrogen patches for anorexia

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/new-...

Anorexia and Assisted Dying — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Some doctors in 2024 believe that, if they discharge a patient from treatment at an extraordinarily low BMI, their brains may be miraculously able to change. There is still a great deal of magical thinking in the world of eating disorders.

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/anor...

Frontiers | Disordered eating in anorexia nervosa: give me heat, not just food The recommendation to apply external heat to patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) was first documented by William Gull in 1874. Gull encountered this practice...

Give me heat, not just food.

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Why eating disorders campaigners are worried about the Assisted Dying Bill — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

My thoughts on the Assisted Dying Bill:

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/anor...

Thank you for reading!

Why eating disorders campaigners are worried about the Assisted Dying Bill — Anorexia Myths Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

My thoughts on the Assisted Dying Bill:

www.anorexiamyths.com/am-blog/anor...

Have started writing something on the assisted dying bill. It will come as no surprise to those of you who know me that I’m finding I have quite a lot to say…

Do Parents Cause Anorexia Nervosa? — Anorexia Myths Why this idea could never have been true, if you really think about it

Another old post but one that is important to me:

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