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  1. ABC Feeds @[email protected] ·

    'Not sick enough': Woman with eating disorder details 55 hours in emergency department
    By Brianna Morris-Grant

    As Australia marks Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week, one woman shares her 55-hour long ordeal seeking treatment for anorexia in a hospital emergency department.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/eat

    #EatingDisorders #Health #BriannaMorrisGrant

    #eatingdisorders #health #briannamorrisgrant
  2. ABC Feeds @[email protected] ·

    Online promotion could normalise 'extreme' rib contouring surgery
    By Shari Hams

    A cosmetic surgery procedure that reshapes and partially fractures the ribs is now being offered in Australia, after gaining popularity with influencers overseas. Experts warn social media promotion of the procedure could fuel pressure to achieve increasingly extreme body shapes.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/rib

    #CosmeticIndustry #EatingDisorders #ShariHams

    #cosmeticindustry #eatingdisorders #sharihams
  3. Psychology News Robot @[email protected] ·

    DATE: September 2, 2026 at 04:30AM
    SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTH

    TITLE: Opinion: The next DSM should address the algorithm’s role in eating disorders

    URL: statnews.com/2026/09/02/dsm-6-

    This fall, clinicians and researchers around the world will gather at conferences to discuss the future of psychiatric care, including the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), expected in 2030.

    It will be the first revision since 2013, when TikTok didn’t exist and generative AI wasn’t a source of health information. That same year, Facebook retired its old ranking system and moved to a machine learning model built to predict what would keep someone scrolling. The way algorithms now shape how people think about food, their bodies, and themselves would have seemed like science fiction in 2013.

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    URL: statnews.com/2026/09/02/dsm-6-

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