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Tag: mental health

Tag: mental health

A mother speaks about her experience of supporting her teen daughter’s struggle with anorexia.

Parents of children with eating disorders often feel desperate, anxious and frustrated. Trapped between not pushing their child away and saving their life, parents can struggle with knowing how to juggle being supportive and coping with their own fears. Natasha…
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Spurgeons tackles eating disorder myths as rates climb among children

During Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Spurgeons has launched new video animations to support a growing number of children with eating disorders and to tackle harmful myths surrounding them. These resources aim to educate parents, carers, and professionals on how to…
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In a post-pandemic world, children are struggling with anxiety more than ever. What can we do to help?

Remember when we all received the text from the government on 23rd March 2020 telling us to stay at home? All the the months and years that followed, being stuck indoors, the social distancing, and uncertainty- we lived through it…
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