{"id":147719,"date":"2025-11-19T05:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147719\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:50:09","slug":"more-people-in-ireland-seeking-help-for-very-restricted-eating-says-bodywhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/147719\/","title":{"rendered":"More people in Ireland seeking help for \u2018very restricted eating\u2019, says Bodywhys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The support service saw strong demand from young people last year. Photo posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4f4195e0-8eb5-46ad-963c-655a90b073f1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The support service saw strong demand from young people last year. Photo posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than a quarter of calls made to a support organisation last year involved people who had an \u00adeating disorder for over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The annual report of Bodywhys said living with a long-standing eating disorder or supporting somebody with one \u201cis incredibly difficult and we strive to provide ongoing support for people in this situation\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The support service saw strong demand from young people last year. Photo posed\/Getty More than a quarter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4593,2120,61,60,47450,43,6085],"class_list":["post-147719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-miriam-ocallaghan","tag-news","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}