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Fibromyalgia isn’t just pain
It’s #FibromyalgiaAwarenessDay. Here, I try to explain what fibromyalgia is, in my personal experience. It’s constant fatigue that never goes away. It’s spending weeks recovering from a big event. It’s feeling like you’ve done 10 workouts when you did a simple chore. It’s migraines, stomach cramps, bladder issues. It’s shower water feeling like tiny needles….
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Dump The Scales Speech
Yesterday, 27th April 2024, I had the honour of speaking at the #DumpTheScales march in London. For those who couldn’t attend (or hear over the helicopter above our heads), here is my speech. I lived with an eating disorder for over 40 years, mostly binge eating disorder, or BED. I think I first binged around…
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Lies
Lies A short poem about a day in the life of an eating disorder for #worldpoetryday Content warning: eating disorder thoughts and behaviours.
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Does restriction cause eating disorders?
There’s been a lot of debate about restriction causing eating disorders recently. Now I’m not a scientist. I’m someone in recovery from an ED. Someone with over 40 years of experience of eating disorder behaviours. Was my illness caused by restriction? It was a potential factor, but not the main cause. Did restriction keep me…
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That time when I was fit and healthy
There’s a secret I’ve been keeping since my twenties. A particular time when my ED voice was at its loudest. It’s this time I go back to whenever I question whether having an ED was really so bad, or whether I was ever really ill at all. In this blog, I am sharing it for…