Emily Kwong

I think a lot of eating disorders are first addressed within a family, right?

Families notice, oh, there's something not okay with my kid or with my cousin or with my sister.

And families...

can be patients' and providers' best allies in treatment.

So how should someone approach a loved one if they're seeing some of these physical and behavioral and cognitive signs that you're describing?

And part of treatment also is creating an environment for healing.

So, Eva, you were a part of a consulting panel for TikTok and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, on safety policies related to body image and eating disorders.

And TikTok banned a hashtag called Skinny Talk.

which aggregated a lot of extreme weight loss content, unrealistic depictions of people's bodies.

And yet this content, it is still out there, right?

Even in advertisements, even on television, whether you have social media or not.

So I want to ask you a question that comes from Maria Friedman, a teen mental health advocate who's on the road to recovery herself.

So it sounds like how you look at recovery that's sustainable is it has to go beyond the clinic.

People surrounding the patient also need to be educated and on board.

That's shocking.

Because eating disorders have some of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorders.

Eva, thank you so much for talking to me.

And thank you for everything you are doing for people out there who are struggling with eating disorders.

And that includes patients like Maria.

She's advocating for herself and other teens.