{"id":433050,"date":"2026-05-05T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:38:10","slug":"when-your-child-has-an-eating-disorder-get-curious-about-how-it-is-serving-them-because-i-promise-you-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433050\/","title":{"rendered":"When your child has an eating disorder: \u2018Get curious about how it is serving them \u2013 because I promise you it is\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nClinical psychologist and eating disorders expert Dr Ann Colton on what to do if you are parenting a child with disordered eating\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"If you think your child might have an eating disorder, don\u2019t freak out \u2013 talk to them. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ttyImages_135894394.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)\">If you think your child might have an eating disorder, don\u2019t freak out \u2013 talk to them. Photo: 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)\">Might your child have an ED \u2013 an eating disorder? It\u2019s a highly emotive and distressing question and, if we suspect they have, it\u2019s not something we can ignore. Catching them early is crucial.<\/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)\">Here are some recognisable signs, according to the Priory hospital group, of disordered eating in young people: Are they compulsively exercising\/weighing themselves, cutting their food into tiny pieces, going to the bathroom just after eating, socially isolating? Are they an abnormally high or low weight? Are they feeling exhausted\/cold\/dizzy? Bad breath\/mouth infections\/stomach pains?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinical psychologist and eating disorders expert Dr Ann Colton on what to do if you are parenting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,72992],"class_list":["post-433050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-suzanne-harrington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433050","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=433050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}