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Alykhan Asaria

@alykhanasaria.bsky.social

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Trying to find my way to somewhere. Living with an ED and OCD. Mental health volunteer/researcher. Please share my pinned post to help improve ED care. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aly-Asaria

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Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Jan 28

Please read and share my new article to help raise awareness and improve care for underserved eating disorder sufferers and their loved ones.
jeatdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Improving eating disorder care for underserved groups: a lived experience and quality improvement perspective - Journal of Eating Disorders

Improvements to eating disorder (ED) care are urgently needed in the United Kingdom (UK) and around the world. Informed by my lived experiences, independent research, and involvement in the underappre...

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Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 1d

Looking away is irresponsible but intervening is impossible. My constant dilemma.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 1d

I wish people who hate me could tell me rather than leave me in uncertainty. Not knowing is worse.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 6d

"Don’t give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now. God bless you all." - Dr Jane Goodall youtu.be/lfLKHY52ERc?... via @YouTube

Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix

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Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 6d

People make it easy for someone to give up on themself when they have given up on them first.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 15d

I am guilty of trying to be a rescuer rather than a companion. Silent presence is impossible over social media, which kills the healing power of in-person contact, which I dearly miss. I need to learn to shut myself up and accept that I can't help virtually. I'm sorry.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 15d

The willingness to be present, to stay, to not leave – even when there is silence – speaks a lot louder and hears a lot clearer than words.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · 23d

An empty life is just an existence.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Sep 9

I often wonder whether people who were supposed to care forgot about me accidentally due to their workloads or because I wasn’t worth remembering.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Sep 6

Treatment without compassion is not care.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Sep 5

When peer support leads to peer rejection --> 💔

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 31

Social media algorithms get vulnerable young people sucked into a world where being dangerously underweight is idealised 😥

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 29

I always ruin good things when I try to make them perfect. Good enough is never good enough.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can see the abstract but not the full article unless I have an institutional login account 😕

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you so much

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 18

How do I access it for free without an institutional affiliation? Thank you

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 15

Surviving for others is not true living. You deserve to live, not just survive.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 13

Scientific evidence and treatment manuals are not needed when human connection is the best treatment.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 9

I'm so scared that I will forget the faces of patients I have met, years ago, who touched my heart. I have precious memories that I can't afford to lose. Never.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Aug 3

The most cruel people are often the virtue signallers.

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Jul 29

How many times can you lose faith in humanity.

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 27

We are seriously concerned about the impact of weight loss jabs and how it will increase the risk of eating disorders in vulnerable individuals.

These stories are become too commonplace.

Please sign our open letter to Wes Streeting below
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Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Jul 25

“This is the Mounjaro mind game nobody talks about. I now see food as the enemy, something to be avoided at all cost… At the beginning of the year, I really thought I was investing in a better body image. Little did I know that what I was actually buying was a slippery slope to bulimia.” – S. Sibary

Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's so difficult to observe pain and not be able to do anything about it. A helpless bystander. Standing by is not an option but are there any other options? This question haunts me. Sometimes, I feel that my attempts to help others are actually attempts to help myself.

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Dump The Scales @dumpthescales.bsky.social · Jul 15

@madi-faith.bsky.social @melciavucco.bsky.social @alykhanasaria.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social this blog might be of interest to you, we should appreciate any shares> www.endeatingdisorders.org/post/from-wh...

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Alykhan Asaria @alykhanasaria.bsky.social · Jul 13

Words can be so powerful and so meaningless.