The blog is here: https://edpartner.wordpress.com/

The Story:

For over a year now the woman I love has been suffering with an eating disorder. There aren't really any ways to properly explain how horrific that has been for her, how challenging it has been to see her suffering or how impossible it has felt to help. You can read more about her experiences on her blog here. 

As well as running a prize draw to raise money, I am also blogging every day of Eating Disorder Awareness Week to talk about the experience of being a partner of an ED-sufferer, and hopefully raise some more money for B-Eat by having a good-will paywall for my blogs. 

More information: 

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder: 20% of anorexia sufferers die prematurely from their illness. Despite this, most information available about eating disorders is sensationalised, glamorised, humorised or simplified, and the vast majority of support is difficult to get, hard to find or conflicting. 

That said, Beat has a lot of incredibly helpful information, forums for sufferers and carers, helpfinders for local therapists, great campaigns, media guides, partner guides, symptom checkers, help sheets about specific behaviours, treatment pathway guidance and countless other things (including research & policy work). They do some really good things and their helpline is also incredibly useful (including one time I called crying from Platform 4 of Marylebone with a ridiculous quesiton about laxative abuse or something).