Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness - yet far too many people are unable to access the support they need.
We desperately need more funding for mental health & eating disorder services in the NHS.
No-one should have to crowdfund for treatment.
I despair that fitness marketing has actually chosen to stick to the “lockdown pounds” narrative. It’s so sad.
Work out because you want to. Not because you want to punish your body for surviving through a global pandemic 🙈😩
the way that film / TV still casts northern accents for roles that are meant to represent poorer / rough / less educated characters doesn’t go unnoticed btw
Amidst the horrific stories shared of the preventative measures that women take to avoid feeling unsafe there seems to be a huge elephant in the room.
Namely, what is wrong with how we are raising boys and young men that women don’t feel safe around them? 1/
If you haven’t...
- text a mate ‘I’m home’
- crossed a road to avoid someone
- called & said ‘chat to me for 5’
- noted a cab/car reg
- got your keys out in prep
- locked your car door immediately
- held your breath until you’re past someone
...then you’re a man #SarahEverard
Imagine how you’d feel if you were sent one really nasty tweet.
Imagine ten tweets.
Imagine tens of thousands of them.
Imagine they weren’t tweets, but front page national newspaper articles, seen the world over.
Now imagine handling it with this amount of class. I couldn’t.