Tag: anorexia
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You’re not meant to know that
Eating disorders often have a ‘voice’ to their victims. Dietitian Lucy Carey provides insight into how to be louder than the eating disorder. “From my perspective, everything is going really well,” I told my client. She gave me a wispy little smile that didn’t reach her eyes. “In fact,” I carried on, “It’s going so…
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I bombed my med school interview. It saved my life.
I stood at the back of Burger Fuel on Queen St, staring at the menu on the board behind the counter. My eyes darted across the different items on offer too fast to actually read anything. Frantic. Desperate. The queue was getting shorter and I still didn’t know what to order. Heat crept up my…
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An explosion of eating disorders
I’ve worked in the grey area of disordered eating for a while, often seeing young athletes who reluctantly come to see me with their concerned parent. It’s an area that I love, because seeing these teens get better is so rewarding. It used to be that occasionally a parent would drag their teen along for…