Campaigning for Empathetic & Effective Treatment with Hope Virgo & Suzanne Samaka

The Full of Beans Podcast by Hannah Hickinbotham

Episode notes

In this week's episode, Han is joined by Hope Virgo & Suzanne Samaka. Hope Virgo is an award-winning mental health campaigner and has been involved in several campaigns and projects to improve the support eating disorder patients receive. Suzanne Samaka is a mental health campaigner and the founder of the Honesty About Editing Campaign which supports youth mental health against the challenges of low self-esteem and negative body image caused by edited content on social media.

This week, we discuss:

  • The reason eating disorder campaigning is so important to Hope and Suzanne.
  • The state of eating disorder treatment, palliative care and the ways we are failing eating disorder patients.
  • The goals of the campaigning which Hope and Suzanne are involved in, and the difficulties they are facing.
  • How long we sho ... 
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intuitive eatingpoliticsgovernment