David Samuel is an amazing young man. He has fulfilled his dream to qualify as a Doctor - despite his struggle with anorexia. Watch David's message of hope to all young men and women, he tells how you can beat an eating disorder.
Added: February 24, 2009 Runtime: 04:16 Plays: 261 Comments: 0
David Samuel is an amazing young man. He has fulfilled his dream to qualify as a Doctor - despite his struggle with anorexia. Watch David's message of hope to all young men and women, he tells how you can beat an eating disorder.
This clip, made by 5 girls for the eating disorders charity beat, is aimed at people who are suffering or are worried about someone who may have an eating disorder. We all talk openly about our experiences of having an eating disorder, our turning points and how we feel now we are recovering or recovered. We all give advice to people to help others. The clip is very meaningful to me as it represents some of my past experiences.
This clip is about the effect eating disorders has on the family and the emotional process that the family goes through. It dicusses the help that was given and in some cases not given, and the effect this had on the situation. The clip means a lot to me as it shows my past and what we have acheived as a family and how we have all moved forward by turning something so negative into something so positive.
This clip, made by 5 girls for the eating disorders charity beat, shows the individual experiences they have had with doctors and professionals when recieving help for their illness. It is aimed at professionals, sufferers and family and provides information on how doctors can improve their services and highlights the good, and bad, treatment which is offered.
This clip, made by 5 girls for the eating disorders charity beat, is aimed at friends of someone suffering from an eating disorder. The film includes the girls giving advice and telling their own personal stories. The girls wanted to give an insight into having an eating disorder, and to give tips of how to help a sufferer. They also wanted to highlight that it wasn't the fault of the sufferer and that it was very important to not let the eating disorder dominate the friendship.
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Hi, my name is Susan Ringwood, i'm the Chief Executive of beat, I don't believe that there is such a thing as size zero in the fashion industry. Eating disorders are very complex and the blame cannot be levelled solely at the fashion industry.