4 weeks ago You don t feel like you re sick enough: Meet the Irish blogger fighting for eating disorder treatment
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“There’s three public beds and 2,000 people with eating disorders in Ireland.
One of the more recent times Amanda Lynch was admitted to hospital with an eating disorder, it took her six months to secure funding from the HSE. The time before that, she waited four months. The first time she tried, the funding was declined. She was just never told about it.
Advertisement It was only when I ended up in A&E and we were asking, where the hell is this funding? And then they said it had been declined, she tells Her. My family had to go fighting for it and it was eventually given to me, but that had such an impact.
Caroline Treadway’s first film,
Light, is a long time coming. The director began to struggle with an eating disorder around the age of 13 or 14 but eventually started a process of recovery when she discovered climbing as a young adult. About ten years ago, while building a career as a writer and photographer focusing on outdoor sports, she pitched a story about eating disorders to multiple climbing magazines but none of them bit. It wasn’t until last year that Treadway, now 44, decided she was ready to make a film about the subject.
Light opens up a conversation about eating disorders that reaches far beyond the climbing community, which is a testament to all the time she simmered on the idea.