Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the National Eating Disorder Association has reported a spike of more than 70% in the number of calls and online chat inquiries to its hotline compared to the same time period last year.
, a national network of eating disorder treatment centers, said the program has seen inquiries both online and by phone"fly off the charts" during the pandemic.
Mysko points to the isolating nature of the pandemic -- which has forced people to stay home and forced eating disorder treatments to go virtual -- as a particularly damaging element. "Eating disorders are very complex mental health issues with a strong relation to anxiety, depression, past histories of trauma and substance abuse," she said."We really need to talk about them as part of this mental health crisis."
"When people talk about eating disorders, they talk about it like it's a diet," said Felix."It's like, no, eating disorders have [one of] the highest mortality rates of any mental health disorder."
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