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How to Manage Eating Disorder Stigma
Vismaya Kulkarni is a specialist eating disorders psychologist who has witnessed the impact of stigma within her role and tackling it is something she does daily. In this blog she shares her tips on managing and tackling stigma as well as providing some practical activities to help guide this process.

Vismaya Kulkarni
Nov 104 min read
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Five things I wish had happened before I reached rock bottom with my Eating Disorder.
Reflecting on her recovery, Alix Walker, an Eating Disorder and Body Dysmorphia Specialist shares the five things she wishes had happened earlier in her eating disorder journey - lessons she hopes will help others feel seen and supported sooner.

Alix Walker
Nov 64 min read
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Press Release: Cross-Party group of MPs to hand in petition at Downing Street calling for action on preventable eating disorder deaths
A cross-party group of MPs will join campaigners at Downing Street on October 28th to deliver a petition calling for urgent Government action to end preventable deaths from eating disorders.

Dump the Scales
Oct 283 min read
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Seven positives I took away from eating disorder treatment
Anna Carnegie, researcher and person with lived experience of eating disorders and OCD writes about the positives she took away from Eating Disorder Treatment

Anna Carnegie
Sep 294 min read
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"My son's voice should have been heard. " Alfie's ARFID story
*trigger warning: bereavement, grief, child loss. Little Alfie didn't get the treatment he needed. Saturday 5th July is Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) Awareness Day. We spoke with Lucy Morrison who shared her heartbreaking experience with us to help raise awareness of ARFID, following the tragic death of her 7-year-old son, Alfie. In December 2021, Alfie suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at home - a consequence of undiagnosed ARFID and the malnutrition it ha

Lucy Morrison
Jul 43 min read
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Surviving Easter With an Eating Disorder
We asked the team at Dump the Scales on their top tips on how to survive Easter with an eating disorder.

Dump the Scales
Apr 162 min read
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