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🥳News just in. In collaboration with Fiona Duffy, Dr Emy Nimbley, Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith Dr Keren MacLennan, and Elizabeth Evans, our paper, "Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: A proposal for future research" has been accepted for publication in Eating Disorders

In the UK someone dies by suicide every 90 minutes, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Talking saves lives. Samaritans | #YouAreNotAlone | #WorldMentalHealthDay

🎧A really interesting and insightful discussion about how treatment of eating disorders can be adapted for people with Autism: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… BBC Radio 4 Kate Claudia Hammond EDAC: Eating Disorders and Autism Collaborative

Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature | Journal of Eating Disorders | Full Text This is a very helpful paper. Please share with colleagues working in the field ⁦Royal College of Psychiatrists⁩ jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I think many patients with severe eating disorders need daily contact from treatment teams, including in the context of their home environments. And not just for a few weeks.

Such a powerful story by Emily Nuttall—emphasising the need for treating the individual as a whole #edmd2024

Never felt so needed than I do tonight after the recent news 💚🙏🏻 Please know you’re never alone. Samaritans 116 123

Yes! Well said Wera Hobhouse MP 🔶 🇺🇦 - thank you for always campaigning for those affected by eating disorders!

Why are eating disorder services called eating disorder services and not anorexia nervosa services when they only accept patients with underweight BMIs?

“She was dying. If you said to her unless you eat, you will die. She’d [say] that’s fine I’d rather die than eat.” Jeff Stelling tells #TimesRadio it was an “amazingly difficult” task to find help for his daughter who was suffering from an eating disorder. @FifiGlover

Wow what a huge shock and honor! Massive thanks to everyone who believed in me + held on to hope even during times when I couldn’t see a future for myself. Special thanks to Rano for the nomination + Sophie Behrman for being a great co-production partner!

Congratulations to Profs Janet Treasure, Fiona Gaughran 💙, Derek Tracy, and Dr Toby Pillinger, on their achievements at the @RCPsych Awards 2024. #Psychiatry kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-sta…

*CW*part1 I shouldnt be here after serious suicide attempt 2yrs ago consumed by trauma overwhelms sadness despair anorexia pain 2yrs on survived now working in suicide MH neurodiversity eating disorders bravest thing I ever did was remove my mask continue2 live when I wanted2 die

Good news for a Friday 👏🏼 With some amazing coauthors this paper goes from the stigmata of Christ to contemporary issues of epistemic justice in mental health research via Hegel, Hildegard and hermeneutics - all of the faves 😂 Watch this space - will share! (also I’m no Dr!)

If you’ve had suicidal thoughts this year, if you’ve felt like you would be better off dead than alive, if you’ve been close to the edge I just want you to know that you so close to completing 2024. I am so happy you are alive ❤️

❄️If you need extra support navigating this time of year with an eating disorder, we have a free guide available with advice on social events, preparing for holiday meals, gift giving and receiving, how to access support, & more freedfromed.co.uk/guides/27/free… ❄️

Enormous THANKYOU to the many Samaritans volunteers across & UK & Ireland who are giving their time over these Christmas days to ensure that there is always someone to listen should you need it. You are wonderful people, I am proud to be part of our Samaritans family 🙏💚

You don’t need a 2024 highlight reel to be proud of yourself 💚 The small wins – like getting out of bed on a tough day, or opening up – matter just as much. They’re proof of your resilience and worth celebrating. Share a 2024 win below 👇 We’re proud of every little victory.

Andy spent this morning with Sophie & Anne from the Headlight Project helping deliver suicide awareness training to Y10, Y11 & 6th formers at Stokesley School These are exactly the the sort of sessions we have asked the Department for Education to add to the school curriculum

Being suicidal isn’t always actively making plans to end your life. Sometimes it’s not wearing your seatbelt and hoping the car crashes or crossing the road without looking and hoping you get hit by a car or eating out of date food hoping food poisoning will kill you