Eating Disorders: are they different in adults? How? What does this mean for recovery?
Channel: Pooky Knightsmith Mental Health
Date: 26/02/2019

In today's video I explore adult eating disorders and I draw on my own experience of anorexia in my 30s as well as many discussions I've had with other adults with eating disorders in both a professional and personal capacity to make some suggestions about how eating disorders and eating disorder recovery in adults differs from eating disorders in teens.  I talk about how we can tailor our support to help promote recovery and explore some questions I think we need to be asking.  This video may be of interest to you if you are an adult with an eating disorder or if you are worried about someone or if you work with adults with eating disorders.  

You can jump to whichever bit of the video you're most interested in by clicking on the time stamps below:

01:26 - adults can suffer from eating disorders!
02:35 - whose role is it to raise the alarm when there are no parents / teachers?
05:17 - if you're worried about someone, say something
06:30 - the stakes are high so adults may work hard to mask their symptoms
08:50 - how should we support parents with eating disorders
12:42 - we need to set realistic parenting expectations
15:03 - unrelenting standards can affect our approach to work too
18:11 - trying to do adult thinking with a starved brain is hard
20:19 - group therapy is hard if you're at a different life point to the rest of the group
22:54 - should partners take on a parenting role in recovery?
24:46 - how much responsibility should an adult take for their own eating during recovery?
27:31 - go back to basics and explore what 'norma'l looks like... 

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Self-Harm and Eating Disorders in Schools: https://amzn.to/2SSUJyN