To support Eating Disorders Awareness Week, BU is hosting an event with speakers Dave Chawner - an author, award-winning comic and mental health campaigner - and Richard Lee, entitled 'Living with someone with an eating disorder'.
In this talk, Dave and Richard will provide an insight into what it’s like living with someone with an eating disorder from the perspective of lived experience and being a housemate.
Richard and Dave lived in the same house at a time when Dave was going through a relapse in his eating disorder. Reflecting on this experience, Dave and Richard talk about the what it’s like to witness the eating disorder behaviours; the late night binges, the laxatives, the weighing, exercising and the unusual eating patterns. They discuss how Richard strove to help on multiple occasions and to support Dave.
In their discussion, Dave and Richard explore how an eating disorder can impact on others and on how that in turn can have an impact on the person with the eating disorder. The talk is delivered with humour and compassion.
The event takes place at both Talbot and Lansdowne Campus on Tuesday 3 March. Click the links below to find out more and book your place:
| Talbot Campus | FG06, Fusion Building | 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Lansdowne Campus | BG14, Bournemouth House | 14:00 - 15:00 |