Study shows lengths patients with eating disorders go to hide illness

Embedding weights in hairstyles and hems of clothing to conceal their true weight are among the lengths patients with an eating disorder will go to to hide their illness, doctors at a special treatment unit in Sligo University Hospital (SUH) have found.

A paper published in the Irish Medical Journal (IMJ) highlights the difficulties doctors and nurses face when trying to treat eating disorders, which have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness.