![]() ![]() I knew that the internet was an ideal place because it’s low-cost, open 24 hours, international and anonymous. I started it because I envisioned a community of parents helping other parents to survive this devastating experience. ATDT (as it is often known) began in late 2004 with only one member: me. Indeed talking to families that have survived an eating disorder can be one of the most encouraging and empowering comforts during difficult times.īev Mattocks has collected together just some of these stories, many from a very special place: the Around The Dinner Table forum - an online forum run by parents for parents. We want to know that there is hope that our child will recover - and we want to meet other parents that have faced the crisis and come out the other side. So when we discover our child is sick, we can feel alone, isolated and frightened. ![]() ![]() community and its online forum Around The Dinner Table (ATDT):īefore the diagnosis, few of us will have talked with another family facing anorexia, bulimia or another eating disorder. ![]() In case you haven't discovered it yet, here's what its founder, Laura Collins, said in the Introduction to my second book When Anorexia Came to Visit about the F.E.A.S.T. The Around The Dinner Table Forum is an amazing forum for parents of young peope with eating disorders. ![]()
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