Pandemic Has Led To Surge In Eating Disorders

The AP (5/22, Tanner) reported, “The pandemic created treacherous conditions for eating disorders, leading to a surge of new cases and relapses that is not abating as restrictions are loosened and COVID-19 cases subside in many places, doctors and other specialists say.” Jennifer Wildes, “an associate psychiatry professor and director of an outpatient eating disorders program at the University of Chicago Medicine, said: ‘We are absolutely seeing massive increases.’” The Emily Program, “a University of Minnesota-affiliated eating disorders treatment program, is experiencing the same thing.”

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— “Pandemic has fueled eating disorder surge in teens, adults “Lindsey Tanner, AP, May 22, 2021

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