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Genocide
How do you sleep at night? How do you live with yourself? How do you call yourself civilised? How do you not see that this Is genocide? These are not terrorists. They are defenceless children, Starving, thirsty, homeless children. Children orphaned by your bombs, Your genocide. Why don’t you hear their cries? Why do you…
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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…