Eating Disorder Awareness Week
Eating Disorders Awareness Week (EDAW) is hosted by BEAT and runs from 26 February to 3 March 2024.
An eating disorder is a mental illness that can impact on an individual’s day-to-day life. It might involve not eating enough food, eating large quantities of food at once or using unhelpful or harmful behaviours such as making yourself sick or using laxatives.
It can affect anyone, but it can be confusing to understand and recognise it in our own personal experiences. Perhaps you are not quite sure what ‘disordered eating’ is, but you know that something feels wrong.
What support is available?
Vincent Square Eating Disorder Service
The service offers a range of specialist services for people aged 18 years and over, and our expert team have helped many patients and their families to recover from eating disorders. They are located in Kensington, but there is also a clinic for patients in Brent and Harrow. More information is available here
There is also a Lived Experience guide from East London NHS Foundation Trust. This guide has been designed by ‘experts by experience’ in disordered eating. It is intended to be an informative and reflective space for individual experiences to be shared, and as a welcoming non-clinical resource for those who feel they may be experiencing disordered eating.
King's College London produced great video with Professor Ulrike Schmidt where she discusses current treatment and ways to get help.