My daughter just came home after 11 months in an eating disorder unit 100 miles away. It was a long tough road. The team never gave up on her or her capacity to recover. She's transformed & so far things are going well. I'm in awe of her. Never give up. #anorexia #edrecovery

I recognise the feelings Ruth’s mum describes. We were lucky. I knew the unit we took my d too 100 miles from home (privately run by @SchoenClinicInt) was excellent. It has since been closed. Our NHS neglects people with eating disorders and this is the consequence. RIP Ruth.

Great job by Dr Annabel Price today - despite hostility from some peers. Thank you for standing up for the many patients whose needs are not currently being met in our underfunded, overstretched NHS. We should fix the NHS first.

I recently contributed to a piece about Victoria Beckham and her brave decision to open up about her eating disorder in her new documentary. It's a really important conversation. You can read the full article here: https://t.co/DBScxgmjIb #WorldMentalHealthDay @DailyMirror

I admire so much how @victoriabeckham speaks in her Netflix documentary about the relentless emphasis on her weight and the impact that had on her eating, the secretive shame of eating disorders and the devastation of her self esteem. Powerful stuff from a powerful woman.

We detect at least four factual errors here: 1. The Bill is NOT safe 2. It is NOT compassionate 3. It has NOT won the support of the public. 4. It has NOT won the support of Peers. With all the money and resources at your disposal, you might want to employ a fact checker.

Good effective compassionate care for all eating disorder sufferers would deal with the assisted dying problem for anorexia. @wesstreeting I hope you will prioritize this and all those MPs who expressed sympathy and then nodded through the bill with no amendments will join in.

This is the point. Of course they won’t. Nor for an eating disorder service that is fit for purpose. I was shouted at by a Dignity In Dying person today telling me my concerns were made up and depriving him of his choice. But apparently we’re the ones lacking respect.

The Terminally Ill Adults Bill has lost its absolute majority in the Commons (they got 314, and it's 318 for absolute majority) And their lead has been cut by more than half Not a bad result The fight continues

As Nikki says voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not anorexia and does not close the anorexia loophole.

This is so powerful. Ailidh, Lesley and Neal are telling the truth, a truth that contradicts @KimLeadbeater's version of reality. I'm heartbroken for Lesley and Neal and full of admiration of the work they do. Meh https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4ef7045141eba9c2. .

This letter is wonderful. Hope and self-esteem. I so agree.

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

Some are found to have capacity, some not, some die very quickly, some are still alive many months later. @KimLeadbeater's callous disregard for the truth of their situation and the dangers of this bill is shocking. MPs have a chance to take a different more compassionate view.

Some of these patients end up in front of the Court of Protection which has to decide their capacity and best interests. You can read the judgements and see how they struggle, often changing their minds mid process and/or disagreeing with the doctors involved.

Facing the consequences of their "decisions" is a euphemism for death. And so we then saw the increasing stories of patients in her Trust and others who are facing this situation. As @AgnesAyton knows from her work these patients can and do get better, But it takes good care.

"If we ‘rescue’ this patient against their will, their illness would be perpetual." The solution for this doctor's and her colleagues' stress was to condemn v ill patients - who to be clear never made a decision to have anorexia, like nobody decides to get cancer either.

"Our current mental health system was making me ignore all of my and my teams’ expertise... that this patient might do better if discharged from the service, if they have a chance to face the consequences of their decisions.

To show what eating disorder sufferers are up against (a 🧵): These are the words of a senior psychiatrist in an NHS Trust in the Royal College's newsletter 2022. Lamenting the stress she and her colleagues felt she made the case for excluding severely ill patients fromm care:

This horrifies me. @KimLeadbeater has been told over and over by experts both from experience and professional clinicians that people with this new diagnosis of "terminal anorexia" will fall under the provisions of this bill. She's either deliberately misleading or stupid.

Thank you. Pls focus on the terrible position of severe anorexia sufferers who are now being diagnosed as "terminal" even though with the right care they could recover. it is dangerous to introduce this bill into a failing NHS which doesn't care for these patients as it should.