Anorexia Nervosa – A Recovery Guide for Sufferers, Families and Friends
Ed says U said – Eating Disorder Translator
A Clinician’s Guide to Binge Eating Disorder
A Girl Called Tim - Escape from an Eating Disorder Hell
A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders
My Kid is Back
Hope at Every Age - Developing an Appetite for Recovery
What is that magical moment that changes in the brain, when someone who has been sick with Anorexia Nervosa for more than 7 years, begins to recover? Why is that person suddenly able to start getting better? How do they make the switch from being captive to their eating disorder thoughts, to being able to focus [...]
Teachers are in a prime position to be among the first people to notice a child is developing symptoms of an eating disorder. As someone whose anorexia was triggered at school, I cannot emphasise this enough. Sometimes, friends of the child will notice the symptoms, and confide in the teacher. How the teacher responds – how [...]
I developed Anorexia Nervosa more than 50 years ago, when the illness was scarcely understood or recognized. For decades, throughout a long and lonely battle to recover and regain my life, I yearned to see eating disorders brought into the light, to be acknowledged and challenged. For me, the At Home with Eating Disorders conference [...]
High five for Out of Sight - a documentary about invisible eating disorders, one of which is Bulimia. If this video had been around when I was younger it would have helped me realise that I had an illness – not a weakness; and my parents and sister would have understood the challenges that whirled in my mind. Knowledge [...]
Many people who could not get to Australian’s much-needed At Home with Eating Disorders’ conference for families and carers are eager, and desperate, for information. Be assured, it is coming soon! The conference committee is deciding the best way to make recordings of the sessions by world leading researchers available and what, if any, cost will be involved. [...]
Professor Stephen Touyz, of the University of Sydney, has been attending international conferences on eating disorders for more than 30 years in Europe, North America and Australia. But until last week in Brisbane, he had not attended a conference with a focus on carers and families. You could say that this conference has ‘made all [...]
The catalyst for Australia’s first eating disorder conference for families and carers occurred in November, 2011, when three Australians (June Alexander, Bridget and Tim Bonnin) attended the first FEAST Symposium in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Inspired and determined, the Aussies returned home and began making calls. Within a month, Elaine Painter, leader of the Eating Disorder [...]
I suffered anorexia as a child, and transitioned to bulimia before the illness was given a name (by British psychiatrist Gerald Russell in 1979). But if I had developed Binge Eating Disorder (this month listed as a recognized illness in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – called the DSM-5) the recovery challenge [...]
The At Home with Eating Disorders Conference in Brisbane is, in one word, amazing. The conference opened this morning. A dream come true. From small things, big things can grow. In this instance, a widening awareness of the serious need to provide improved treatment and support for sufferers of eating disorders. The Brisbane conference is [...]
The 2013 ‘At Home with Eating Disorders’ conference, Australia’s first gathering of carers for people with eating disorders, will end the blame game that has held parents responsible for their children’s illnesses. The carer’s conference, held in Brisbane from 23rd to 25th of May, will bring together national and international experts to recast the role of [...]
