Tag: self-harm/suicidality
When your child with an eating disorder is at risk of self-harm or suicide: some great resources
Practical resources for parents: if your child with an eating disorder uses self-harm or is suicidal
Crisis Helplines
Organisations that will give you help if you are in distress or suicidal.
Bizarre yet normal eating disorder symptoms
Bizarre but normal effects of an eating disorder and malnutrition. These will pass with eating disorder treatment.
Three routes out of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
In this post I offer you three evidence-based approaches to address the effect of traumas large and small, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our lives, as we support a child with an eating disorder, is peppered with distressing or fearful events — some affect us for a day, and some can bring us to tears,…
Suicide and eating disorders: some statistics
Today, I am summarising some statistics for you. Each of these statistics represents someone who might be enjoying a full life right now if they had received early diagnosis and evidence-based treatment. I sincerely hope that in ten years’ time the statistics will be very different. The suicide risk is several times higher among those…
