Experiences of Male Eating Disorder
I wrote a piece this month for the online ED magazine, Mirror-mirror.org. Using some of my qualitative analysis of published stories, written by men who have endured disordered eating, I…
Posts Tagged: eating disorder
Returning to recovery
As it’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I wanted to mark the occasion by doing something a little different. So, instead of editing excerpts from my research journal I’m going to…
Is this a tipping point?
For those of you who are not familiar, Gladwell (2000) wrote of the tipping point that exists where something that was overlooked, not succeeding or had previously been thought unlikely…
EDAW 2012 (2)
Hi again, It’s the second day of Eating Disorders Awareness Week and here’s another (hopefully useful or informative) nugget. Pica is, perhaps, one of the lesser known diagnoses which sometimes…
EDAW 2012 (1)
It’s easy these days, surrounded by social media and constant access to news and serialised dramas, to forget that my own original eating disorder diagnosis, Bulimia Nervosa, is relatively young. The…
Eating Disorders Research – first blogged @ MGEDT
Back in May 2011 I gave a presentation at the Men Get Eating Disorders Too Conference; I was there as a trustee but mainly as the ‘less personal experience, more research…
‘Not all of us are fine around food…’
Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2011 February 21st onwards I’m still looking for more males who identify as eating disordered to take part in my research via my website: http://www.brad.ac.uk/eating-disorders-and-men/
Eating disorders and men… and away we go.
Well, what a lot of rubbish that last post was about stopping reading. I never managed it. I’m still reading and am now beginning to think I’m obsessed by it….
Wading through treacle – get the association?
Well, we’ve moved offices twice in matter of weeks and I’m now moving house, so while I’m still reading avidly ready to engage with the contributions from some of you…
Men and eating disorders NHS advert
Sam Thomas, who is the founder and lead campaigner of Men Get Eating Disorders Too, sent me this link which is part of the new campaign to raise awareness of men…
Men and Food… where are you at?
Hi again, More participants are coming forward through my website (http://www.brad.ac.uk/eating-disorders-and-men/) to write and then send me their accounts of what their lives have been like developing, living with and…
Eating Disorders and Men
This is my research journal which documents my decision-making and research process as I investigate the phenomenon of UK men and eating disorders. I am currently about to launch my research…