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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illness, second only to opioid addiction. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Over the past 14 months, the rate of eating disorders requiring hospitalization among young people has skyrocketed...

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https://twitter.com/tessa5news/status/1392523949632802821

In Bedfordshire, the number of NHS referrals for eating disorders increased from 90 to 220 - a 244% increase...

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bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

And in Oxford, the number of urgent referrals jumped fourfold - from 20% in 2019 to 80% in 2020.

This number of children waiting for treatment increased by 128%...

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theguardian.com/society/2021/f…

Increasingly, younger children are being affected.

This is an account by a mother of an 11-year old in Ireland who developed anorexia during lockdown...

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irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

This is another unsettling piece by the @nytimes from March 2021, highlighting the extent of the eating disorder crisis in the US...

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nytimes.com/2021/03/31/wel…

And as these articles from @sciam & @NPR in August & September 2020 respectively illustrate, we saw this crisis coming...

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scientificamerican.com/article/covid-…

npr.org/sections/healt…

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