If you have found your eating disorder symptoms have worsened during the pandemic you are not alone. For all types of mental health conditions the same is true. This will be a series looking at options for improving and lessening symptoms if that is what you have determined needs to happen.

If you have found your eating disorder symptoms have worsened during the pandemic you are not alone. For all types of mental health conditions the same is true. This will be a series looking at options for improving and lessening symptoms if that is what you have determined needs to happen.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This is the last instalment in the series looking at this topic.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

Many with chronic illness already know there is no going back, but there will be an unprecedented number of people joining the ranks of the chronically ill for the first time. And for all those with “underlying conditions” there is an urgent need to shift focus and begin to get things in order. This series explores what that might look like.

The final segment in this series where we re-evaluate diagnoses and labels, and then ultimately reject the deficit/strength model in favour of a more multi-faceted framework of editing, curation and protection. The diagnoses and labels clamp down on all that you are, if they are framed as deficits, or as strengths.