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A child psychologist has warned of an eating disorders ?epidemic? in East Anglia after a new report revealed more people nationally were being hospitalised because of the conditions.
Kiran Chitale, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services across the two counties, said she was seeing more young patients suffering from disorders such as anorexia and bulimia than ever before.
?We are seeing a drastic rise in these conditions ? it?s almost like an epidemic,? she said.
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/east_anglia_psychiatrist_warns_of_eating_disorders_epidemic_1_3265588
Kiran Chitale, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services across the two counties, said she was seeing more young patients suffering from disorders such as anorexia and bulimia than ever before.
?We are seeing a drastic rise in these conditions ? it?s almost like an epidemic,? she said.
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/east_anglia_psychiatrist_warns_of_eating_disorders_epidemic_1_3265588