How a chocolate bar helps me stay healthy: eating disorder survivor concerned about new food pyramid
‘A chocolate bar every now and then won’t kill me, but not eating a chocolate bar every now and then will strengthen my eating disorder, which in turn will kill me (and nearly did)’ Claire Mercer When I was around 12 years old I developed Anorexia Nervosa and became seriously ill in a very short […]
Does a ‘loving family man’ violently shoot his wife and kids?
The Hunt family murder-suicide. This is what needs to be said. Nina Funnell perfectly echoes my own thoughts on the murder of a mother and three children by their husband and father. By NINA FUNNELL Trigger warning: This post deals with violence against women and children, suicide and other distressing topics. It may be triggering […]
Anorexia Kills Girls: don’t say you love it
The disease destroys the lives of too many girls: don’t mock it on a t.shirt [Trigger warning for eating disorder sufferers] A number of my young women friends are very ill with Anorexia Nervosa. Three have come close to death a number of times. I want them to stay alive. They want to live too. Some […]