Advice for those suffering with eating disorders

Monday marks the last day of Eating Disorder Awareness Week which ran from February 26 to March 4. It aims to raise understanding and awareness around the complexities of disordered eating, which is a spectrum that goes beyond what we traditionally recognise as eating disorders, such as anorexia and binge/purge bulimia nervosa.

Other patients could present with exercise bulimia, binge-eating, orthorexia (an obsession with ‘clean’ foods that seems all the more prevalent in the era of Instagram), a dependence on laxatives, manipulating their insulin if they’re diabetic, or suffer with an EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified).