there, we met some of the patients and doctors who treat them. over the next 25 minutes or so, if you want to access more information because of what you re going to see, then the bbc action line is there to help. go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline. first, i started our special broadcast by attending a group therapy session, where claire, georgia and anna plus their therapist mary told us their experiences of eating disorders and the treatments they have received. hello, hi, hello, good morning. ignore me, do carry on, do carry on. so, do you want to go ahead and pick that object that symbolises for you the healthy identity and the one that symbolises for you the anorexic identity? and put them where makes sense to you next to your boxes. there make sense? yeah. yeah, 0k. and georgia, do you want to say what it is about the object that you ve picked that makes sense to you about the anorexic identity? so i ve picked a gear, which to me, represents being trapped inside my eatin
inside my eating disorder, like the real me is trapped inside the illness, kind of like i ve drawn in this picture, where i would say this is me, and that s like my eating disorder, it looks nice, but really, it s not your friend, it s your enemy. thanks, georgia. what about you, claire? which one have you gone for for the anorexic identity? a bee, because it feels soft and cuddly, but it actually stings and hurts, and causes some damage to yourself. that s something that s confusing about it, isn t it? because it isn tjust the enemy, it also feels like a friend to you, it feels like it is there for you, protecting you. can i pause at that moment? because that is a really interesting. the fact that you picked that, you say it is a friend and an enemy. let me introduce you to everybody, thank you for having me in here by the way, mary, who is a therapist, claire, who is currently receiving outpatient treatment after her third time in hospital, georgia, currently getting this k
like, yesterday, somebody said oh, you re looking better. and i said, by better, do you mean fatter? and they were like, no, i mean, you don t look pale and grey. but instantly my first thought was, they mean that i ve put on weight and, therefore, i look bad. it comes as the charity, beat, tells us exclusively that nice guidelines into how the families of people with an eating disorder should be supported are not being properly followed. they re today launching new guidance on how it should be done. we ll talk to roisin mccallion who was diagnosed with anorexia when she was 16 and her parents, who struggled to get the help they needed to support their daughter. and we ll sit in on a therapy session to see how this service is doing things differently to help patients. hello. good morning. welcome to our programme. regularly on this programme we broadcast live from places many people don t have experience of. we ve taken you inside a pupil referral unit, a domestic
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