Featured Topic

  • Society's Influence and ED in the Media

    Eating Disorders and Bullying. BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat reporting on Beat report The charity Beat has carried out the biggest ever study on the link between bullying and eating disorders. Researchers spoke to more than 600 16 to 25-year-olds suffering from anorexia, bulimia or overeating. Click here to watch this BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat report

Upcoming Chat Room Dates

Thu, 24/05/2012 - 15:30 - 16:30

Daily Tip: ED Recovery

  • "God grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom always to tell the difference." (K. Vonnegut) Acceptance is the most essential step in self-improvement. We are sometimes afraid to...

Daily Tip: Family and Carers

  • Please get on with living your own life, do not put it on "hold" until your son/daughter recovers. Guilt is one sure way to slow down the recovery process, and putting conditions on your own life based on their illness is one sure way to inflict in...

Featured Iceberger Post

  • hey all
    i felt the need to write this lately.
    i havent really been loggin on to iceberg as frequently as i used
    i find that i am looking to hold posts from Lee, yvonne, robin and saoirse for some hope and inspiration that
    recovery really exists
    i find that alot of negativity is being spread in various posts and...

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What is Self Help?

  • Dear Icebergers,

    I started to write my first self-help book well over twenty years ago while recovering from eating distress. It was a great help to me that I practiced everything I was writing about, it really helped my recovery. When I recovered I did not wanted people to experience the darkness of the mind for as long as I did, and I started to research ways how to speed up recovery and experience real life and freedom. In my 18 years of working and researching eating distress I...