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@Bfoundation exciting announcement will mean better care for eating disorder patients across Australia

I’m recovering from atypical anorexia and while this helpline is great, much more needs to be done to help those with eating disorders in the community. There are 37 beds nationally for ED patients! I moved from Sydney (which then had 2 statewide ED beds) to Geelong for (con’t)

Desperately needed treatment. I would be dead without my private health insurance because if you have an ED you simply can’t rely on Medicare to help you because public treatment is, honestly, shit. It’s often cruel & punitive & focuses on bare minimum treatment (con’t)

Goals that get people out of imminent life threatening danger, but stuck in the cycle of an eating disorder for years or decades. EDs are the most lethal mental illness, yet General psych wards will not usually take an ED patient as ED patients “need to be treated by (con’t)

Specialist teams” because the staff in general don’t have the training, resources or skill set to care for patients with an ED. Please explain to me how the system has got so bad? Because if it was a physical illness you would get the care you need. It’s not THAT uncommon!

So please forgive my ranting, but I am very passionate about this because I nearly lost my fight too many times to count. The ED community deserves better. Why are there more ED patients dying each year than the road toll, yet so little funding and support for us?!

@janeburns Perhaps you may understand why we need a National MH Consumer Peak. systemic advocacy for ALL Mental Health CONSUMERS