New Research: The Suicide Risk Nobody Talks About in Eating Disorders with Dr Una Foye
About this episode
This episode discusses new research on the correlation between eating disorders and suicide, featuring insights from Dr Una Foye.
Anecdotally, we know there is a correlation between eating disorders and suicide, yet until now, there has been no published research to show that. This week on the Full of Beans Podcast, Han is joined by Dr Una Foye, a Research Fellow at King's College London, who is leading the qualitative arm of an MQ-funded study exploring why people with eating disorders are at higher risk of suicide and self-harm. We talk about the groundbreaking, and long overdue, research that finally puts lived experience voices at the centre of this conversation, why the data has always been harder to read than it should be, and what the findings mean for the way we think about treatment, recovery, and care. In this episode, we explore: The research gap: Why there has been almost no qualitative work asking people with lived experience about the link between eating disorders and suicidality, until now. The hidden statistics: Why deaths connected to eating disorders and suicide are so often recorded under other causes, and what stigma and the historic criminalisation of suicide have to do with it. The complexity of risk: How the eating disorder itself, identity loss, social isolation, and the function it…
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