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‘Anorexia coaches’ on Kik app prey on people with eating disorders

App hosts dozens of group chats where youngsters are given strict weight-loss advice

Published: 1 Mar 2019

The Society interview Samuel Pollen: 'Having an eating disorder is like having a bad cop inside your head'

The author of a novel to help young people deal with anorexia says his message is a hopeful one - most people recover

Published: 26 Feb 2019
Hospital admissions for eating disorders surge to highest in eight years

Published: 15 Feb 2019
Instagram urged to crack down on eating disorder images

Published: 8 Feb 2019

A letter to ... A letter to… my thoughtless mother

‘To brag of starving yourself in front of my teenage daughters beggars belief’: the letter you always wanted to write

Published: 12 Jan 2019

Screen bites How 'Mad' Are You? tries to be sensitive about mental illness. So why does it make me squirm?

Fiona Wright

SBS’s reality show speaks frankly about mental illness. But where does its inspirational rhetoric leave those of us who don’t recover?

Published: 17 Oct 2018

Published: 17 Oct 2018

Blood, sweat and tears You saw yourself as damaged goods; I saw a determined survivor of abuse

Years after your death, I still think of the smart young woman who made repeated visits to the psychiatric emergency service where I worked

Published: 27 Jul 2018

Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Husk by Margot Armbruster

A strikingly accomplished work from a 16-year-old poet reflects on the resonances of anorexia with religious fasting

Published: 4 Jun 2018

The cost of getting well in Australia is keeping us sick

The public health system is supposed to prevent undue financial burdens. But for author Fiona Wright, the reality is far from utopian

Published: 21 Apr 2018

Best culture 2017 Lady Dynamite to BoJack Horseman: how mental health on TV got real

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Lady Dynamite and BoJack Horseman pulled no punches with portrayals of the differing, complex sides of mental health disorders

Published: 19 Dec 2017
Letters: Corbyn’s liking for Cuba has no relevance to Britain’s problems

If Labour’s moderates want to regain control they should engage on issues such as the NHS

Published: 16 Dec 2017

Published: 16 Dec 2017
Anorexia is a mental illness. Treat it properly

Barbara Ellen

Averil Hart’s death has underlined how victims of food disorders aren’t treated with the respect they deserve

Published: 9 Dec 2017

Published: 9 Dec 2017
'Clear failures of care': scathing report into student's anorexia death

Averil Hart’s death was ‘an avoidable tragedy’ which shows problems with NHS eating disorders services, says ombudsman

Published: 7 Dec 2017

Hadley Freeman's Weekend column It wasn’t feminist theory that cured my anorexia – it was having something to eat for

I was extremely lucky to have found a wonderful doctor who understood me and who I couldn’t outsmart

Published: 25 Nov 2017

Published: 25 Nov 2017
Feminist reading really can help beat anorexia. It worked for me

Kate Leaver

A study says that anorexic people feel less to blame for their condition after reading feminist theory. In my case, I have Susie Orbach to thank, writes freelance journalist Kate Leaver

Published: 16 Nov 2017

Published: 16 Nov 2017

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