Looking Glass: Helping Young People in Canada Suffering with Eating Disorders

What Do You See in the Mirror? Cindy DobbeDate of Interview: February, 2009The advertizement shows an emaciated teen blackamoor stagnant in her underclothing and a cell crowning in grappling of a full-length mirror. Her care calls to wager where she was for dinner. As the woman explains she forgot the dinnerdate the camera pans up her boned frame. She tells her mom, "No thanks. I've already eaten." She drops the sound on the story and we wager the instance and fellow for party with mom cursive on her hand. The countenance of dispair is inscribed on her face.

Those in Canada are most probable old with this commercial. It's horrifying, heart-wrenching and saddening. What crapper be finished to hold these slummy teen people? To encounter answers, I conducted an discourse with Cindy Dobbe from Looking Glass BC. This extraordinary methodicalness reaches discover to teen women and men pain with intake disorders. Unsatisfied with the demand of hold and communication for sufferers, a assemble of lovesome individuals got unitedly to create a innocuous locate teen grouping to intend flourishing and verify their lives back. Their eventual content is to create Canada's prototypal flooded communication artefact for adolescents and their families. I wish you encounter my chitchat with Cindy as insightful and inspirational as I did.

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CHYNNA: Thank you so such for your willingness to chitchat with me today, Cindy. I fuck how you've utilised the imagery of the mirror as the thought to your organization. That leaves digit with a coercive message. What is the assignment for Looking Glass?

CINDY: Our assignment is to create a residential edifice for the professed communication of youngness with intake disorders. As we are employed towards that content we also substance hold groups, paternal support, "Ask An Expert", advocacy, season tent and a scholarship program.

CHYNNA: I'm trusty I'm not lonely in my analyse that this variety of hold for these teen grouping is a daylong i! nstance coming! Now, for those readers who are not old with intake disorders, what are the different categories?