Jen C

#MentalHealth and #EatingDisorder advocate for improved #EvidenceBased treatment in the UK. Please help save the #NHS!

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

If a 24/7 Mental Health Emergency Helpline had been available last year, maybe I wouldn't have lost my beautiful nephew to suicide, my sister her beloved son, or my niece her wonderful brother.

Please sign the petition.

#MentalHealth #SuicideAwareness

[sxmbit.t1 @t1sxmbit]

We are campaigning for the UK Govt to launch a 24/7 Mental Health Emergency Helpline - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/rl7VloOnlx via @UKChange

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

I'm on Substack! My first post shares excerpts from my eating disorders book written for parents/carers. It helps you recognise the signs of an ED, and explains what energy deficit is.

Please subscribe and share! 🙏🏼https://t.co/5SyT0zRnd8

#EatingDisorders #Anorexia #Bulimia

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

I just wrote my first note on Substack! Please read a brief snippet from my yet-to-be-completed-let-alone-published book: When an Eating Disorder Invades Your Lives.
https://t.co/8jKoFK4pU9

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

My partner is a paralysed wheelchair user. We were outraged at this 'offer' to end her life just because she needs a ramp!

My daughter is in recovery from her Anorexia. 10 years ago, they would have let her die. Now, thriving and happy with a son and loving partner.

[LBC @LBC]

‘A Paralympian requested a ramp outside her house and she was offered the drugs to end her life.’

@Tanni_GT discusses the upcoming vote on assisted dying with @IainDale, warning against Canada’s legislation as an example, where policy was ‘rapidly’ expanded on.

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@MRL2017 @LBC @Tanni_GT @IainDale The trouble is, who decides what's 'terminal'? Somebody with Anorexia Nervosa, as mentioned here, could well be by uneducated clinicians. And yet we KNOW that you CAN recover from an eating disorder with the RIGHT TREATMENT!

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@MRL2017 @LBC @Tanni_GT @IainDale https://t.co/F5OCZe0auv

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@TheRyanHamilton I am so sorry for what you have both been through, as I did. I'm grateful to the nurse who dragged the doc, who told us to go home, out of the room to shout at him! I was given a D&C within hours, the best way. Abortions are needed for medical, social care and other reasons 💔

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

I've had this event in my diary for months but sadly cannot now attend. Please, if you can, support @HopeVirgo's march next Saturday!

#DumpTheScales #EarlyIntervention #EatingDisorders

[Hope Virgo @HopeVirgo]

Join us next weekend - 27 April 2024 to campaign for those affected by eating disorders #dumpthescales

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@AnorexiaMyths I considered recording mealtimes to replay to my daughter's treatment team when she returned home from IP for weekend leave. Like you, I never did. Perhaps I should have done.

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@AnorexiaMyths I hear you. My daughter loved food too.
Later, during her recovery, she told me that she had a love/hate relationship with food. She loved it but hated how it made her feel after eating.
She's still not fully recovered but is doing amazingly well (despite walking too much).

[Bernie Wright (she/her) @HealingMindsTW]

There is increasing evidence suggesting a potential link between ADHD & eating disorders, particularly binge eating disorder & bulimia nervosa. Some studies indicate that individuals with ADHD may be at a higher risk for developing eating disorders #adhd #eatingdisorders

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

Broken mental health services is one of many reasons why people become homeless. Please sign and share this petition to stop criminalising rough sleeping. Thanks.

Petition: Do Not Push Forward with New Offences relating to Begging and Rough Sleeping https://t.co/w5CD4D9iry

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@AnorexiaMyths @AlykhanAsaria I feel the same! Many clinicians probably wouldn't recognise my D, either! I'm so glad your D is almost recovered 💪🙌💓

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@Debsliztaylor @CaraLisette Cara, as a parent I definitely used extra oils, butter, cream etc. My D knows that now, and she knows it saved her life. We do what we have to when we're not getting enough, if any, support from the professionals.

Debs, you know how sorry I am for your loss. Love and hugs 💞

[Hope Virgo @HopeVirgo]

With #EDAW round the corner a few things to remember: 

🪧Please don’t post before and after photos!

🪧 Please don’t share exact behaviours associated with your eating disorder

🪧Please don’t mention specific numbers

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@AnorexiaMyths Yes. Same here. That low weight keeps them in a living hell. In purgatory. Treatment MUST improve!

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@EmmaWri98632517 @AnorexiaMyths I'm so sorry. It's heartbreaking, and shouldn't be like this.

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@outdoorperscrip @AgnesAyton No, that is very true. There should be more choice. I'm sorry you've struggled to get the help you need.

[Jen C @JenC_EDSUK]

@fran3tic @AnorexiaMyths She is SO much better, thank you. She's also in a happy relationship with a 9-month-old baby! I never thought it would happen. We have had a strong relationship throughout, even when the ED (and adult services!) tried to distance her from me. I'm so proud of her!