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It s an ugly illness - life with an eating disorder

It s an ugly illness. It brings on ugly things and it just brings darkness into your life. Róisín Doyle, 20, a first-year student at NUI Galway has struggled with anorexia and bulimia for five years. An eating disorder is something that wants you all to itself. It doesn t want you to enjoy life, Róisín explained. March 1 to March 7 is Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which aims to draw awareness to the seriousness and complexity of eating disorders. According to the HSE, in Ireland, over 188,000 people will have experienced an eating disorder at some point in their lives. An article in the Irish Medical Journal earlier this year noted there was a 66% increase in admissions with eating disorders in 2020 compared to 2019.

During lockdown, my 11-year-old was hospitalised with an eating disorder

Jan 9, 2021 14 min read “Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.” I hear those words in St Frances Clinic at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin. January is Health Month in The Irish Times. Throughout the month, in print and online, we will be offering encouragement and inspiration to help us all improve our physical and mental health in 2021. See My 11-year-old daughter is lying in a hospital bed struggling to eat one of seven meals the nurses will give her that day, while I try to get my head around how we ended up here. I ring my husband and relay everything I’ve learned in the past 24 hours – our daughter is dangerously underweight and we have a lot of work ahead of us to help her get well.

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