with them, andrew radford from the eating disorder charity, beat.oing all right at the moment, i think it's a constant struggle and there is still a lot of work to be done, but i would say comparatively to where i've been, i'm in a better place. but a point i'd always like to get across is thatjust because you're better than where you were doesn't mean you're better completely, and it's still a struggle for me. could you describe for our audience what it's like having an eating disorder? i mean, i could go on about that forever, it is a broad question, but i think the thing that i would say really is that it is all—encompassing, so people may think that when you hear about an eating disorder, you think about somebody getting stressed out when sat at the dinner table or if someone offers you a piece of cake, but for me and for basically everyone else i know with an eating disorder, it's all the time, it doesn't leave your head, you don't get respite, so one example i was thinking of is that i've just started a newjob down in oxford, working for the s

i'm going to bring in andrew radford, chief executive of beat.y are being properly followed. we've done some being properly followed. we've done some research and it shows that stories of despair and hopelessness are being felt by hundreds, thousands of parents across the country. there was a common theme of helplessness but determination and drive to do something about it. meanwhile, the nice guidelines say eating disorder services should be engaging with parents but the parents themselves say that isn't happening. beat will speak to 30,000 people this year and that is a common theme. why isn't it happening? i think it's the system at fault. eating disorders professionals are amazing and want to be the right thing by their patients but they don't have the time or resources to do it effectively. what you've got is an amazing resource. parents of people with eating disorders are amazing, they have to go through hell but they, determined to do right by their loved one. if you can take that energy and determination to work together between the servi