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  • East, UK
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    About eating disorders

    Food and eating play a very important part in our lives. We all vary in the foods we like, how much we need to eat and when we like to eat. Food is essential for our health and development.

    It’s not unusual to experiment with different eating habits, for example you may have decided to become a vegetarian or tried changing your diet to improve your health. However, some eating patterns can be damaging.

    Problems with food can begin when it's used to cope with those times when you are bored, anxious, angry, lonely, ashamed or sad. Food becomes a problem when it is used to help you to cope with painful situations or feelings, or to relieve stress, perhaps without you even realising it.

    If this is how you deal with emotions and feelings and you are unhappy about it, then you should try to talk to someone you trust. Try not to bottle things up - this is not helpful to you or other people around you, it won’t make you feel any better and the problem is unlikely to go away.

    It is unlikely that an eating disorder will result from a single cause. It is much more likely to be a combination of many factors, events, feelings or pressures which lead to you feeling unable to cope. These can include: low self-esteem, family relationships, problems with friends, the death of someone special, problems at work, college or at university, lack of confidence, sexual or emotional abuse. Many people talk about simply feeling ‘too fat’ or ‘not good enough’.

    Often people with eating disorders say that the eating disorder is the only way they feel they can stay in control of their life, but as time goes on it isn’t really you who is in control – it is the eating disorder. Some people also find they are affected by an urge to harm themselves or misuse alcohol or drugs.

    For more information about eating disorders please visit our site here

    Our contact details www.b-eat.co.uk/YoungPeople Youthline for people 25 and under 0845 634 7650 open 4.30-8.30 weekdays and 1-4.30 Saturdays or e-mail fyp@b-eat.co.uk

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    Confidentiality is essential to the services beat provides. But sometimes there are some circumstances where it may be necessary to break confidentiality. These are if there is a danger to the caller or others in their care (ie Child Protection issues).

    It is very rare for us to consider or indeed decide to break a service user's confidentiality.

    If we do have to break Confidentiality

    You will be informed

    • The reasons why the decision has been made will be explained.
    • The possible repercussions of breaking confidentiality will be explained.

    Please contact our support services if you have any questions.

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CyberMentors

CyberMentors is all about young people helping and supporting each other online. If you're being bullied, or are feeling a bit low, or are maybe troubled by something and you're not sure what to do or who to talk to, then CyberMentors is where you can go for help. It doesn't matter how big or small you think the problem is.

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Talk to a member of our youth team through our online messenger from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on Mondays and Thursdays: www.b-eat.co.uk/1-2-1

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  • Jul 2 2009 7:02 PM

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  • Jun 8 2009 3:24 PM

    Bristol Crisis Service for Women could be helpful to you on the subject of self harm as well as Mind. If you go to our site www.b-eat.co.uk there is help and support for adults as well as young people about eating disorders.
  • Jun 7 2009 12:57 AM

    I find alot a places concentrate on young people who have a ed or young people who self harm.Its not just a young persons diease!Alot of adults outthere are suffering too.I find it so much harder as a adult to find help or support.
    Any suggestions?
  • May 21 2009 12:41 PM

    Thanks for the add!
  • May 15 2009 1:51 PM

    thank you for adding us to your friends list :)
  • Apr 5 2009 7:43 AM

    Is it really possible to beat an Ed?I've been suffering for 15yrs now and I can't imagine being without it!
  • Mar 25 2009 2:47 AM

    Hello =]

    Thank you for accepting my friend request! I am a recovered anorexic and have been at a healthy weight for 6 months now and getting better everyday!. I hope people become more aware about this illness that is so dangerous and heart breaking.

    Kym xx
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  • Feb 10 2009 9:22 PM

    thank you for accepting my request, suffering from anorexia for 2 years you website has always been a useful support so thank you
    Anna x
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  • Nov 5 2008 5:03 PM

    Thankyou for the friend acceptance - beat has been a great support so far in my recovery. I want to do what i can to support beat and help other people going through the same things as myself.
    xxx
  • Oct 23 2008 12:34 PM

    let me know if there is anything i can do to help :)

    i don't have an eating disorder, but one of my closest friends does and i want to help raise the awareness and offer support.
    xx
  • Sep 27 2008 1:59 PM

    Thankyou for the friend accepteance,
    I have bulimia, and am sturggling alot with it at the moment and didnt no if you had any tips
    x Ro x
  • Sep 4 2008 8:20 PM

    hey thankyou 4 accepting me wel i'm going thru a really hard time n felt like i culdnt talk 2 anyone about my eating problem wel the lack of eating n feeling sick but its made me feel better now tht i know ppl are out ther 4 me 2 tlk 2 thnx xxiram xx
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  • Jun 29 2008 6:50 PM

    thankyou for accepting me, times are hard lately, your info has been a support for my bf in the past. just hope i can get though it one day
    x
  • May 27 2008 10:05 AM

    28 Apr 2008 14:37
    Eating Disorders Aren't Cool.
    In the UK there are well over a million people living with an ED, including children as young as 8.
    So why have we got groups promoting them as a "way of life", posting pictures of dying girls as "thinspiration" to inspire sufferers to become dangerously thin?

    Agree something needs to be done?
    Add the Fight To Live Campaign.

    Bands especially, we're looking for good bands to maybe play another gig since the last one was such a success, to be interviewed, or have their gig filmed and maybe other similiar things!

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  • May 14 2008 8:57 PM

    I think you guys do an amazing job with the support you offer and advice and information you have made available. Your work is invaluable to those of us who fight daily with EDs. Thank you so much.
  • Apr 11 2008 3:21 PM

    Wishing all at Beat, a happy day
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  • Mar 31 2008 11:40 AM

    Thank you for all your support, your charity has given me the support and motivation to believe that I can recover, I'm almost there and I'll never forget that =]

    xxx
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  • Mar 14 2008 12:10 PM

    thanx for excepting me as a friend!!! i signed up for beat last week and theyve sent me some things out which are really good! since discovering your site its made me feel alot better and not as alone!!! xxxxxx