“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change” - Breen Brown

Please read and sign. #TreatableNotTerminal jamesdowns.co.uk/post/treatable…

Excited to continue chairing the APPG for Eating Disorders, and to work with Hope Virgo as its fantastic new Secretariat. Hope has always been the most passionate and committed champion of improving eating disorder services in the UK. Together, we can make a real difference 🤝

Recovery confuses the hell out of me.

It’s really important not to conflate psychotic disorders (including schizophrenia) and psychopathy.

I miss times before COVID-19 when the world was a less bad place.

The world ended in 2020 for a lot of people who are still alive.

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Our results suggest that the BMI cut-off distinguishing AN from atypical AN may be arbitrary—lower BMI does not necessarily indicate higher illness severity, and should not be used to limit access to treatment for those with higher weight AN.

Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa and the proposed “Terminal anorexia” category: an expanded meta synthesis Nice to see the inclusion of lived experience in this debate. Whilst clinicians may disagree, people with lived experience want better treatment tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

‘Good enough’ doesn’t exist.

🧵 Harm Reduction in Severe & Long-Standing Anorexia Nervosa: Summary from our Narrative Review (2024) James Downs & Edwin Birch jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10…

Anorexia Myths 10/ Lorna Collins paper shows that recovery is possible after many years of unsuccessful attempts by integrated CBTE approach jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Lottie Moss "Where did the body positivity go?" Drowning under the lure of cheap surgery in Turkey and promotion of weight loss injections. Apparently, it's now easy to have a western society acceptable body. Easy and dangerous.

This is a very helpful document from RCPsychScot janemorris Hope Virgo James Downs Alykhan Asaria Lorna Collins pdf.browsealoud.com/PDFViewer/_Des…

Goodbye calories! Hello, energy! - Life Stories Diary lifestoriesdiary.com/2024/09/16/goo…

"I now think of calories as energy - valuable energy - that my body needs and deserves... One phrase my ED therapist and dietician used is: All foods fit. No food is judged, period... Fact: Starving my body of energy starves my life." - Nancy Manther